I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

It is said that the night brings counsel, but it is not said that the counsel is necessarily good.

Now, when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records,...

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence.

One has only to follow events, and you will be all right. The surest way is to take whatever comes as it comes.

Mientras el corazón lata y la carne palpite, no me explico que un ser dotado de voluntad se deje dominar por la desesperación.

Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread...

The body regulates the soul, and, like the balance-wheel, it is submitted to regular oscillations.

To modify the conditions of the Earth’s movement is beyond the powers of man. It is not given to mankind to change the order established by the Creator in the system of the Universe.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.

Numerous observations made upon fevers, somnambulisms, and other human maladies, seem to prove that the moon does exercise some mysterious influence upon man.

When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.

A true Englishman doesn’t joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.

The industrial stomach cannot live without coal; industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food.

The sea is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and life-giving. It is an immense desert place where man is never lonely, for he senses the weaving of Creation...

I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own thoughts....

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

To put up with what you cannot avoid is a philosophical principle, that may not perhaps lead you to the accomplishment of great deeds, but is assuredly eminently practical.

If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.

So is man’s heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has...

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

Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself?

What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?

In Sneffels Yoculis craterem kem delibat umbra Scartaris Julii intra calendas descende, audas viator, et terrestre centrum attinges. kod feci. Arne Saknussem

While there is life, there is hope.

When you bring a man two millions of money, you need have but little fear that you will not be well received.

Death, the beginning of eternal things, is only the end of earthly cares. -Priest

Aures habent et non audient` – `They have ears but hear not

The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were...

The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth.

Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in...

Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.

When one has taken root, one puts out branches.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad – simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!

However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not ‘disgraced’ because it flies before the tempest. A commander ought always to remember that a man’s life is worth more than the mere satisfaction...

Help!”This was my last cry. My mouth filled with water, I struggled against being drawn the abyss. Suddenly my clothes were seized by a strong hand, and I felt myself quickly drawn up to the...

Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.

Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies...

The wisest man may be a blind father.

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning…and let anything better come as a surprise.

The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most...

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

With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.

Why, you are a man of heart!””Sometimes,” replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. “When I have the time.

Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the body, that is, a movement and a regulator?