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

There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.

What one man can think, another man can do.

The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the 'Living Infinite.

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