What darkness is to you is light is to me.
JULES VERNEWhat darkness is to you is light is to me.
JULES VERNESolitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
JULES VERNEAn English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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 VERNEWhen the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
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 VERNEWhat you do for money you do badly.
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 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 VERNEIt seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
JULES VERNEIf there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
JULES VERNEAnything a man can imagine, another can create.
JULES VERNEThe human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
JULES VERNEIt’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
JULES VERNEI believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
JULES VERNEThe earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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