Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.

Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world.

Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.

Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.

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 wisest man may be a blind father.