The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?

And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.

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

....oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs in order to gain the 315 grammes of nitrogen he requires daily.

Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.

I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!

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