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

When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had no means now of taking account of time. Never was solitude equal to this, never had any living being been so utterly forsaken.

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.

As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme

While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert...that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.

Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.

We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!