But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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 VERNEReality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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 is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
JULES VERNEA scholar has to know a little of everything.
JULES VERNEPoets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
JULES VERNEAn English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
JULES VERNEBetter to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
JULES VERNEWhy lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
JULES VERNEWhat darkness is to you is light is to me.
JULES VERNEScent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
JULES VERNEWhat pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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 VERNEAnything a man can imagine, another can create.
JULES VERNEAll great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
JULES VERNEThe chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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