“populations”

“One's native land!―there should one live! there die!”

“Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.”

“He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.”

“All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.”

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

“The colonists had no library at their disposal; but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at the page which one wanted, a book which answered all their questions, and which they often consulted.”