Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.
Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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?
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!