Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.

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

Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.

There is no more sagacious animal than the Icelandic horse. He is stopped by neither snow, nor storm, nor impassable roads, nor rocks, glaciers, or anything. He is courageous, sober, and surefooted. He never makes a false step, never shies. If there is a river or fjord to cross (and we shall meet with many) you will see him plunge in at once, just as if he were amphibious, and gain the opposite bank.

In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.

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

When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.