Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.

The colonists had no library at their disposal; but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at the page which one wanted, a book which answered all their questions, and which they often consulted.

There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, - in God's good time

It swam crossways in the direction of the Nautilus with great speed, watching us with its enormous staring green eyes. Its eight arms, or rather feet, fixed to its head, that have given the name of cephalopod to these animals, were twice as long as its body, and were twisted like the furies' hair.

And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.

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

In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.