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?

The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its...

Your story is not a picture of life; it lacks the elements of truth. And why? Simply because you run straight on to the end; because you do not analyze. Your heroes do this thing...

Oh, figures!’ answered Ned. ‘You can make figures do whatever you want.

On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot – travel all the same!

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers – just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians – by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them...

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

You seize sentiment better when you get clear of nature. You breathe it in every sense!

I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!

Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament.

Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long since lost all its vital heat.

God, if he believed in Him, and his conscience, if he had one, were the only judges to whom he was answerable.

Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man!

In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.