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

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;...

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...

I have noticed that many who do not believe in God believe in everything else, even in the evil eye.

Is not a woman’s heart unfathomable?

There is no more sagacious animal than the Icelandic horse. He is stopped by neither snow, nor storm, nor impassable roads, nor rocks, glaciers, or anything. He is courageous, sober, and surefooted. He never makes...

The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence.

Man is never perfect nor contented.

Far better to be the simplest pedestrian, with knapsack on back, stick in hand, and gun on shoulder, than an Indian prince travelling with all the ceremonial which his rank requires.