Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!.Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!.Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet it is a fatality, a question of time that is all. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together.In any case, to be obstinate is blameable, and to be wilful is dangerous. A commander ought always to remember that a man's life is worth more than the mere satisfaction of his own pride. However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not 'disgraced' because it flies before the tempest.On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains.With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse.It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain.It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. The globe began with sea, so to speak and who knows if it will not end with it? The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature.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. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America.What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph? Everything great in science and art is simple.Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long since lost all its vital heat.In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York!.In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless.A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth.It may be taken for granted that, rash as Americans usually are, when they are prudent, there is good reason for it.Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them applying their audacious ingenuity to the science of gunnery. The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth.A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence.If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence.
What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man!
Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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