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?

Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.

At Kiel, as elsewhere, a day goes by somehow or other.

The wisest man may be a blind father.

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

There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!

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