You will travel in a Land of Marvels

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

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.

From the moment they had left the Earth, their own weight, and that of the Projectile and the objects therein contained, had been undergoing a progressive diminution. . . . Of course, it is quite clear, that this decrease could not be indicated by an ordinary scales, as the weight to balance the object would have lost precisely as much as the object itself. But a spring balance, for instance, in which the tension of the coil is independent of attraction, would have readily given the exact equivalent of the loss.

Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.

As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.