Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!

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

Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important.

A scholar has to know a little of everything.

It is certain," exclaimed my uncle in a tone of triumph. "But silence, do you hear me? silence upon the whole subject; and let no one get before us in this design of discovering the centre of the earth.

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?

So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.