I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall explode and blow up the globe. ... They [the Americans] are great boilermakers.

I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.

Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.

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

I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.

One's native land!?there should one live! there die!

At Kiel, as elsewhere, a day goes by somehow or other.