1. “Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.”
2. “Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.”
3. “All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.”
4. “Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.”
5. “Liberty is worth paying for.”
6. “Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.”
7. “Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which is useful to make because they lead little by little to the truth.”
8. “In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.”
9. “Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.”
10. “How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!”
11. “A true Englishman doesn’t joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.”
12. “There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker will, that’s all!”
13. “We must know most thing that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!”
14. “Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
15. “Man is never perfect nor contended.”
16. “Anything you can imagine you can make real.”
17. “If there were no thunder, men would have little fearof lightning.”
18. “An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.”
19. “The wisest man may be a blind father.”
20. “A scholar has to know a little of everything.”
21. “Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.”
22. “The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.”
23. “My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends.”
24. “The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.”
25. “It seems wisest to assume the worst form of beginning… and let anything better come as a surprise.”
26. “Solitude, isolation are painful things and beyond human endurance.”
27. “With time and thought, one can do a good job.”
28. “Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.”
29. “We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”
30. “The earth does not need new continents but new men.”
