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.
You are going to visit the land of marvels.
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
The wisest man may be a blind father.
I say, you do have a heart!" "Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.
Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.