It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
Savages!′ he echoed, ironically. ‘You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t there savages? Besides, are they any worse than others, these whom you call savages?
As for difficulties,” replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, “they were made to be overcome.
Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.
So is man’s heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.
To the sheepfold!
One single supporter remained faithful to him: an old paralytic, Lord Albermarle. The noble lord, confined to his armchair, would have given his whole fortune to be able to travel around the world, in ten years even; and he bet four thousand pounds on Phileas Fogg.
Was he being devoured by one of those secret rages, all the more terrible because contained, and which only burst forth, with irresistible force, at the last moment?
Phileas Fogg, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven, and having put his right foot before his left five hundred and seventy-five times, and his left foot before his right five hundred and seventy-six times, reached the Reform Club.
La distance est un vain mot, la distance n’existe pas!
But you perceive, my boy, that it is not so, and that facts, as usual, are very stubborn things, overruling all theories.
These are just some arms in the service of a head. Is not this the true organization of the force?