I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.

Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t there savages? Besides, are they any worse than others, these whom you call savages?

I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.

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.

Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.

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