Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.

I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!

While 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.

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.

However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten

Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.