Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.

How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!

What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!

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.

What you do for money you do badly.

What one man can think, another man can do.

Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.