Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make because they lead little by little to the truth.

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make for they lead step by step to the truth.

While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.

This is what happens when you leave home. You meet... people.

Is not a woman's heart unfathomable?

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

Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise.

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

As for the Yankees, they had no other ambition than to take possession of this new continent of the sky, and to plant upon the summit of its highest elevation the star- spangled banner of the United States of America.

My uncle wasted a great deal of breath in giving him directions, but worthy Hans took not the slightest notice of his words.