We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
JULES VERNEWe now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
JULES VERNEWhatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
JULES VERNEEverything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
JULES VERNEAnything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
JULES VERNEHe must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
JULES VERNEScent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
JULES VERNEMan 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.
JULES VERNEThe earth does not need new continents, but new men.
JULES VERNEAll great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
JULES VERNEIn presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
JULES VERNEAnything a man can imagine, another can create.
JULES VERNESolitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
JULES VERNEMan is never perfect nor contented.
JULES VERNEIf there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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 VERNEWhat use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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