"The world is full of beauty, if only you look for it."

"Science, my lad, is composed of errors, but errors that it is good to commit, for they lead little by little to the truth."

"We are of the opinion that it is not well to make too much noise in the world."

"The impossible is only the untried."

"He also describes her as – ahem – 'as fair as a European'. (French: Cette femme était jeune, blanche comme une Européenne.) Note that the French reads blanche, i.e., 'white'."