What one man can think, another man can do.

There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, - in God's good time

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions.

[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.

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.

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