Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

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

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.

In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one day travel to the Moon, the planets, and the stars with the same facility, rapidity and certainty as we now make the ocean voyage from Liverpool to New York.

In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.

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

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.