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

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

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

The earth does not need new continents, but new men.

Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not

It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.