It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
JULES VERNEIt seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
JULES VERNEA scholar has to know a little of everything.
JULES VERNEThe sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite.
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 VERNEHow many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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 VERNESolitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
JULES VERNENature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
JULES VERNEThough sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
JULES VERNEBefore all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
JULES VERNEAll great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
JULES VERNEWhat you do for money you do badly.
JULES VERNEThere are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
JULES VERNEWhat use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
JULES VERNECivilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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