Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
JULES VERNEThough sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
JULES VERNEWhile there is life there is hope. I beg to assert…that as long as a man’s heart beats, as long as a man’s flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
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 are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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 one man can imagine, other men can make real.
JULES VERNEWhatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
JULES VERNEThe human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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 VERNEAn English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
JULES VERNEIn presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
JULES VERNEIt’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
JULES VERNEScent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
JULES VERNEThe earth does not need new continents, but new men.
JULES VERNEAll great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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 VERNE