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

Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.

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

A scholar has to know a little of everything.

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.

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.