Jules Verne

“It is for others one must learn to do everything; for there lies the secret of happiness.”

“The wisest man may be a blind father.”

“A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth.”

“An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.”

“It is only when you suffer that you truly understand.”

“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?”

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

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

“I gazed at these marvels in profound silence. Words were utterly wanting to indicate the sensations of wonder I experienced. I seemed, as I stood upon that mysterious shore, as if I were some wandering inhabitant of a distant planet, present for the first time at the spectacle of some terrestrial phenomena belonging to another existence. To give body and existence to such new sensations would have required the coinage of new words - and here my feeble brain found itself wholly at fault. I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!”

“Man's constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter. 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.”

“The sea is only the embodiment of asupernatural and wonderful existence.It is nothing but love and emotionit is the ‘Living Infinite...”

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

“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.”

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

“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 - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.”

“When one has taken root, one puts out branches.”

“One's native land! There should one live! There die!”

“The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence.”

“Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph?”

“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?”