What darkness to you is light to me

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!

He was the most deliberate person in the world, yet always reached his destination at the exact moment. As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme. Around the world in eighty days

It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.

The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?

[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.