What darkness is to you is light is to me.
JULES VERNEWhat darkness is to you is light is to me.
JULES VERNEI say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
JULES VERNEWe see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
JULES VERNEA scholar has to know a little of everything.
JULES VERNEWhat use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
JULES VERNEAnd whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
JULES VERNEMan is never perfect nor contented.
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 VERNEPowder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
JULES VERNEWhy lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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 VERNEHe must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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 VERNEThe chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
JULES VERNEThe sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
JULES VERNEAnything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
JULES VERNE