I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own thoughts. They overcome you.
When science has sent forth her fiat – it is only to hear and obey.
The earth does not want new continents, but new men.
The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
While there is life there is hope.
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth.
Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
Man’s constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter. 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.
It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words.