It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.

I say, you do have a heart!" "Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.

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.

Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.

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

Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.

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?