Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.

He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.

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

So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.

Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!

Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world.

With its untold depths, couldn't the sea keep alive such huge specimens of life from another age, this sea that never changes while the land masses undergo almost continuous alteration? Couldn't the heart of the ocean hide the last–remaining varieties of these titanic species, for whom years are centuries and centuries millennia?