Look with all your eyes, look.
Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.
On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man.
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.
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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.
The distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.
What I’d like to be above all is a writer...
Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
The wisest man may be a blind father.
Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus.
I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important.