It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions.

One's native land!?there should one live! there die!

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 wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.

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

He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.

I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall explode and blow up the globe. ... They [the Americans] are great boilermakers.