On 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.

It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions.

However, the balloon, lightened of heavy articles, such as ammunition, arms, and provisions, had risen into the higher layers of the atmosphere, to a height of 4,500 feet. The voyagers, after having discovered that the sea extended beneath them, and thinking the dangers above less dreadful than those below, did not hesitate to throw overboard even their most useful articles, while they endeavored to lose no more of that fluid, the life of their enterprise, which sustained them above the abyss.

[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.

Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.

Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.

At Kiel, as elsewhere, a day goes by somehow or other.