It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.

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

My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends.

Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.

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

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.