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

Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.

He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.

You will travel in a Land of Marvels

I had no need of sails to drive me, nor oars nor wheels to push me, nor rails to give me a faster road. Air is what I wanted, that was all. Air surrounds me as water surrounds the submarine boat, and in it my propellers act like the screws of a steamer. That is how I solved the problem of aviation. That is what a balloon will never do, nor will any machine that is lighter than air.

A scholar has to know a little of everything.

Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.