I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!

It is not new continents the earth needs, but new men.

I say, you do have a heart!" "Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.

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

From the moment they had left the Earth, their own weight, and that of the Projectile and the objects therein contained, had been undergoing a progressive diminution. . . . Of course, it is quite clear, that this decrease could not be indicated by an ordinary scales, as the weight to balance the object would have lost precisely as much as the object itself. But a spring balance, for instance, in which the tension of the coil is independent of attraction, would have readily given the exact equivalent of the loss.

What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.