One's native land!?there should one live! there die!

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

No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

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

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.

It is not new continents the earth needs, but new men.

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