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

As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.

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

How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!

I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.