Look with all your eyes, look.
At Kiel, as elsewhere, a day goes by somehow or other.
Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
A scholar has to know a little of everything.
I would have bartered a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water!
During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland.
A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same.
As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme.
Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.
My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends.
What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature’s creative powers are greater than man’s destructive instincts.
Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
What darkness to you is light to me.
However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten.
It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions.
Man is never perfect nor contented.
In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.
But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!