"Mary! Staremo a vedere", disse il cieco Hugh."

"Often you'll see the same three or four data items together in lots of places: fields in a couple of classe…"

"It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, where Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature."

"I have in this treatise followed the mathematical method, if not with all strictness, at least imitatively,…"

"Dwellers by the sea are generally superstitious; sailors always are. There is something in the illimitable …"

"A snow of blossoms and a wild of flowers."

"I shall present as certain only those data corroborated by exhaustive research, or by my own personal inves…"