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

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.

We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!

The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.

Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.

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