As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme
Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.
Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks" "Yes, sir, of sharks and men.
A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same.
The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.
If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
What I'd like to be above all is a writer.
I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.
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.
Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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!
You will travel in a Land of Marvels
When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had no means now of taking account of time. Never was solitude equal to this, never had any living being been so utterly forsaken.
I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall explode and blow up the globe. ... They [the Americans] are great boilermakers.
How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
There is no more sagacious animal than the Icelandic horse. He is stopped by neither snow, nor storm, nor impassable roads, nor rocks, glaciers, or anything. He is courageous, sober, and surefooted. He never makes a false step, never shies. If there is a river or fjord to cross (and we shall meet with many) you will see him plunge in at once, just as if he were amphibious, and gain the opposite bank.
The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
Anything you can imagine you can make real.
Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important.
Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.
Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.
He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.
I say, you do have a heart!" "Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
Man is never perfect nor contented.
A scholar has to know a little of everything.
I would have bartered a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water!
My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends.
But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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.
Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world.
Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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.
What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
From the moment they had left the Earth, their own weight, and that of the Projectile and the objects therein contained, had been undergoing a progressive diminution. . . . Of course, it is quite clear, that this decrease could not be indicated by an ordinary scales, as the weight to balance the object would have lost precisely as much as the object itself. But a spring balance, for instance, in which the tension of the coil is independent of attraction, would have readily given the exact equivalent of the loss.
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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!
As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.
Look with all your eyes, look.
No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.
All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
It is certain," exclaimed my uncle in a tone of triumph. "But silence, do you hear me? silence upon the whole subject; and let no one get before us in this design of discovering the centre of the earth.
I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!
Liberty is worth paying for.
You are going to visit the land of marvels.
....oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs in order to gain the 315 grammes of nitrogen he requires daily.
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, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.
Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.
What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.
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.
We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.
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.
In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.
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.
Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not
Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions.
It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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.
External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!
However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one day travel to the Moon, the planets, and the stars with the same facility, rapidity and certainty as we now make the ocean voyage from Liverpool to New York.
Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
One's native land!?there should one live! there die!
There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women's clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager? Queen Victoria: I do! I've got 20 quid riding on you
What darkness to you is light to me
Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.
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 established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.
What one man can think, another man can do.
I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
Well, gentlemen, do you believe in the possibility of aerial locomotion by machines heavier than air? ... You ask yourselves doubtless if this apparatus, so marvellously adapted for aerial locomotion, is susceptible of receiving greater speed. It is not worth while to conquer space if we cannot devour it. I wanted the air to be a solid support to me, and it is. I saw that to struggle against the wind I must be stronger than the wind, and I am.
It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.
Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
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.
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 we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet.
How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!
Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
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.
He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed
There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, - in God's good time
I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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
An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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.
Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
Anything a man can imagine, another can create
And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the 'Living Infinite.
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
What you do for money you do badly.
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 unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.
Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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.
Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.
I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.
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.
With time and thought, one can do a good job.
Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me. I nodded. 'And he's taking you with him?' I nodded again. 'Where?' she asked. I pointed towards the centre of the earth. 'Into the cellar?' exclaimed the old servant. 'No,' I said, 'farther down than that.
Ah!" I cried, springing up. "But no! no! My uncle shall never know it. He would insist upon doing it too. He would want to know all about it. Ropes could not hold him, such a determined geologist as he is! He would start, he would, in spite of everything and everybody, and he would take me with him, and we should never get back. No, never! never!" My over-excitement was beyond all description.
The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
