It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.

Man is never perfect nor contented.

Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.

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

The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.

A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.

From the moment they had left the Earth, their own weight, and that of the Projectile and the objects therein contained, had been undergoing a progressive diminution. . . . Of course, it is quite clear, that this decrease could not be indicated by an ordinary scales, as the weight to balance the object would have lost precisely as much as the object itself. But a spring balance, for instance, in which the tension of the coil is independent of attraction, would have readily given the exact equivalent of the loss.