Liberty is worth paying for.
JULES VERNELiberty is worth paying for.
JULES VERNEThe 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?
JULES VERNEScience, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
JULES VERNEOn 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
JULES VERNEWhat use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
JULES VERNEBut to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
JULES VERNEWhatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
JULES VERNEBefore all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
JULES VERNEWe may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
JULES VERNEI am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
JULES VERNEEverything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
JULES VERNEWe 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.
JULES VERNEThough sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
JULES VERNEThere 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.
JULES VERNETrains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
JULES VERNEAn English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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