Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.

Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!

I say, you do have a heart!" "Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.

Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.

No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one day travel to the Moon, the planets, and the stars with the same facility, rapidity and certainty as we now make the ocean voyage from Liverpool to New York.

With time and thought, one can do a good job.