He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan--by faith, not by reason.

It may be taken for granted that, rash as Americans usually are, when they are prudent, there is good reason for it.

The regions of the North Pole situated within the eighty-fourth degree of north latitude have not yet been utilized, for the very good reason that they have not yet been discovered.

When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey.

'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change.

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless.