Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks" "Yes, sir, of sharks and men.

It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.

What darkness to you is light to me

On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man

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

And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.

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.