Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.

How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!

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

I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new

Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.

Ah, monsieur, to live in the bosom of the sea! Only there can independence be found! There I recognize no master! There I am free!

External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!