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

What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important.

Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.

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

Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.