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

Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.

On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.

We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!

As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme

The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?