The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.

Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.

Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important.

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.

Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.

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

Aures habent et non audient They have ears but hear not

You will travel in a Land of Marvels

I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.

Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.

Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.

Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.

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

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

The earth does not need new continents, but new men.

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.