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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
When you bring a man two millions of money, you need have but little fear that you will not be well received.
I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!
One has only to follow events, and you will be all right. The surest way is to take whatever comes as it comes.
[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.
He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.
The industrial stomach cannot live without coal; industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food.
It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words.
It may be taken for granted that, rash as Americans usually are, when they are prudent, there is good reason for it.
Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
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.
I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus.
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?
What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?
During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland
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!
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.
Until I discover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep. "My dear uncle-" I began. "Nor you either," he added.
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!
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.
Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.
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 only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the 'Living Infinite.
How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!
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.
In the United States, there is no project so audacious for which people cannot be found to guarantee the cost and find the working expenses.
But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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.
Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself?
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?
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.
Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.
Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate into all its secrets.
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.
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
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 is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles will find himself capable of any evil.
In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.
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.
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.
Numerous observations made upon fevers, somnambulisms, and other human maladies, seem to prove that the moon does exercise some mysterious influence upon man.
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
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.
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.
The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
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.
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.
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.