As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
Jules VerneIt seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.
Jules VerneHe was the most deliberate person in the world, yet always reached his destination at the exact moment. As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme. Around the world in eighty days
Jules VerneScience, 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.
Jules Verne