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

The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?

A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.

Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.

Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word "impossible" is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise.

I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus.

I say, you do have a heart!" "Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.