Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.

Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not

It is not new continents the earth needs, but new men.

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!

What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?

It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions.

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.