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.

Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

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

All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.

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?

It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.