There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, - in God's good time

In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.

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

He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.

Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.

But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey? Nothing, you say? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men! Truly, would you not for less than that make the tour around the world?

Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t there savages? Besides, are they any worse than others, these whom you call savages?