In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.
I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women’s clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager? Queen Victoria: I do! I’ve got 20 quid riding on you.
Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
With time and thought, one can do a good job.
The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.
The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.
Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of serpents. I could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees!
He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.
I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
He was the most deliberate person in the world, yet always reached his destination at the exact moment. As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme. Around the world in eighty days.
You will travel in a Land of Marvels.
He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
Liberty is worth paying for.
An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet.
It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!