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.
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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.
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
I say, you do have a heart!" "Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man
The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite...
It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert...that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.
I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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.
A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.
Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!
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[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
Why, you are a man of heart!" "Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. "When I have the time.
And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
But Phileas Fogg, who was not traveling, but only describing a circumfrence,...
What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.
As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.
I have been, am, in his service; I have seen his generosity and goodness; and I will never betray him-not for all the gold in the world. I have come from a village where they don't eat that kind of bread.
It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.
Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.
Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important.
There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
Look with all your eyes, look.
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.
On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.
What one man can think, another man can do.
With time and thought, one can do a good job.
Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks" "Yes, sir, of sharks and men.
All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
The earth does not want new continents, but new men.
What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!
Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.
He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.
Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.
No sir, it is evidently a gigantic narwhal
A scholar has to know a little of everything.
What you do for money you do badly.
My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends.
Until I dicover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep. "My dear uncle-" I began. "Nor you either," he added.
One friend is always sacrificed to the other in friendship.
Perfume is the soul of the flower, and sea-flowers have no soul.
Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.
At Kiel, as elsewhere, a day goes by somehow or other.
However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.
Ah, monsieur, to live in the bosom of the sea! Only there can independence be found! There I recognize no master! There I am free!
Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.
A well-used minimum suffices for everything.
Man is never perfect, nor contended.
It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
Whereas, once under way, you can get so far that going forwards is the only choice.
As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme
In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.
IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT RECEIVES A NEW PROOF THAT FORTUNE FAVORS THE BRAVE
I ask no more than to live a hundred years longer, that I may have more time to dwell the longer on your memory.
I dream with my eyes open.
If at every instant we may perish, so at every instant we may be saved.
Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
If his destiny be strange, it is also sublime.
Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.
What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity.
What!You know German?
Music is no longer tasted it is swallowed.
One's native land!―there should one live! there die!
We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
Was he being devoured by one of those secret rages, all the more terrible because contained, and which only burst forth, with irresistible force, at the last moment?
Sir," replied the commander, "I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus.
In the course of time, Michael Strogoff reached a high station in the Empire. But it is not the history of his success, but the history of his trials, which deserves to be related.
Are we rising again?" "No. On the contrary." "Are we descending?" "Worse than that, captain! we are falling!
The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.
What darkness to you is light to me
Mr. Fogg played, not to win, but for the sake of playing.
There is the disadvantage of not knowing all languages," said Conseil, "or the disadvantage of not having one universal language.
Death, the beginning of eternal things, is only the end of earthly cares. -Priest
Ah! Women and young girls, how incomprehensible are your feminine hearts! When you are not the timidest, you are the bravest of creatures
It is better for us to see the destination we wish to reach, than the point of departure
