Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
JULES VERNEPoets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
JULES VERNEI believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
JULES VERNEWhat I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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 VERNEThough sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
JULES VERNEThe sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
JULES VERNEI wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
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 VERNEScent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
JULES VERNEThere are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
JULES VERNEIt must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
JULES VERNEWhatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
JULES VERNEHow many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
JULES VERNELiberty is worth paying for.
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 VERNEWe are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
JULES VERNE