As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
JULES VERNEAs long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
JULES VERNEWe may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
JULES VERNEWe now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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 VERNEOn the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.
JULES VERNELiberty is worth paying for.
JULES VERNEThough sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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 VERNEI am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
JULES VERNEI 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.
JULES VERNESolitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
JULES VERNEWith time and thought, one can do a good job.
JULES VERNEWhat I’d like to be above all is a writer.
JULES VERNEAnything you can imagine you can make real.
JULES VERNEWhy lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
JULES VERNEWhat you do for money you do badly.
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