An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.

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

No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

What darkness to you is light to me

On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!

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.

What I'd like to be above all is a writer.