Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.

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

On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man

Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.

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

I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus.

He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.