I had no need of sails to drive me, nor oars nor wheels to push me, nor rails to give me a faster road. Air is what I wanted, that was all. Air surrounds me as water surrounds the submarine boat, and in it my propellers act like the screws of a steamer. That is how I solved the problem of aviation. That is what a balloon will never do, nor will any machine that is lighter than air.

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

The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.

Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!

All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.

How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!

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