What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?

But success shall crown my endeavours. Wherefore not? Thus far I have gone, tracking a secure way over the pathless seas: the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph. Why not still proceed over the untamed yet obedient element? What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

Happiness is in its highest degree the sister of goodness.

To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.

His conversation was marked by its happy abundance.

In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out with a cry of pain. How strange, I thought that the same cause should produce such opposite effects.