A scholar has to know a little of everything.

Anything a man can imagine, another can create

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

You are going to visit the land of marvels.

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?

But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey? Nothing, you say? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men! Truly, would you not for less than that make the tour around the world?

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