There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed

You are going to visit the land of marvels.

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.

It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions.

He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.