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

Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!

What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?

The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?

A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth.

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.