Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.

On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!

In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one day travel to the Moon, the planets, and the stars with the same facility, rapidity and certainty as we now make the ocean voyage from Liverpool to New York.

One's native land!?there should one live! there die!

He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.

The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.