Huzza for the Queen! Huzza for Old England!
Liberty is worth paying for.
Instigated by princes equally ambitious and less sagacious and more unscrupulous than he was, the people of India were persuaded that they might successfully rise against their English rulers, who had...
Man is never perfect, nor contended.
So, fatality will play me these terrible tricks. The elements themselves conspire to overwhelm me with mortification. Air, fire, and water combine their united efforts to oppose my passage. Well, they...
Saturne neuf cents fois plus gros, le volume de Jupiter
Until I dicover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep.My dear uncle- I began.Nor you either, he added.
His countenance had resumed its habitual imperturbability.
The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to per...
What you do for money you do badly.
I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!
I dream with my eyes open.
The industrial stomach cannot live without coal industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food.
Neither did
I felt that my true vocation, the sole end of my life, was to chase this disturbing monster and purge it from the world.
Better have two strings to one’s bow than none at all!
Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the p...
Curiosissimo, curiosissimo! diceva tra sé Passepartout nel ritornare a bordo. Mi accorgo che, quando si vogliono vedere cose nuove, viaggiare non è inutile.
With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.
It is for others one must learn to do everything for there lies the secret of happiness.