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

What you do for money you do badly.

As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.

The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?

With time and thought, one can do a good job.

I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new

He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.