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.

However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten

Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.

Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.

Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.

We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!

It is certain," exclaimed my uncle in a tone of triumph. "But silence, do you hear me? silence upon the whole subject; and let no one get before us in this design of discovering the centre of the earth.