“Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.”

A scholar has to know a little of everything.

What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?

Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.

In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.

What I’d like to be above all is a writer.

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?

Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.

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.

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.

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.

All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.

Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

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

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?

Any person by nature has inherent capabilities. You have to trust your instincts and act with spontaneity.

The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.

The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

I love Tony Jaa. He’s one of the best and most capable martial arts stuntmen in the world.

It is when faced with adversity that we get to know what we are made up of, what we are capable of doing, and who we truly are.

I’m now so much more capable of receiving love and giving it in a far different way.

Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality