The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
JULES VERNEThe earth does not need new continents, but new men.
JULES VERNEI saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women’s clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager?
JULES VERNEThe chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
JULES VERNEScent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
JULES VERNECivilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
JULES VERNEAnything you can imagine you can make real.
JULES VERNEI can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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 VERNEIt’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
JULES VERNEIf there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
JULES VERNEWe now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
JULES VERNEThe sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
JULES VERNEWe may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
JULES VERNEThe human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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 VERNEWhat I’d like to be above all is a writer.
JULES VERNE