Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.

Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.

Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks" "Yes, sir, of sharks and men.

Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important.

Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.

Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.

We 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.