¡Cómo! ¿Creéis, Lady Elena, que no se puede ser feliz en una isla desierta?-No, no se puede. El hombre está formado para la sociedad, no para el aislamiento. La soledad no puede engendrar más que dese...
Señor, yo sólo he cumplido con mi deber y, además, no he de callar que los pasajeros tienen más derecho que yo a recibir su agradecimiento.
— El orgullo — dijo el ermitaño a sus huéspedes — ha perdido a un ángel nacido para el bien. Es la piedra de toque en que se quiebran todos los destinos humanos. Al orgullo, principio de todos los vic...
Donc sur l’issue de notre entreprise, tout en marchant à l’assaut du Sneffels. La route devenait de plus en plus difficile ; le sol montait ; les éclats de roches s’ébranlaient, et il fallait la plu...
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
Your arguments at rotten at the foundation. You speak in the future, ' We shall be there! We shall be here!' I speak in the present,'We are here, and we must profit by it.
You have plenty of time; it's only twelve o'clock.Passepartout pulled out his big watch. Twelve! he exclaimed; why, it's only eight minutes before ten.Your watch is slow.My watch? A family watch, mons...
You have plenty of time; it's only twelve o'clock. Passepartout pulled out his big watch. Twelve! he exclaimed; why, it's only eight minutes before ten.Your watch is slow.My watch? A family watch, mon...
Work, my boy! forget me for a few years; I'd only give you bad advice; don't mention our meeting to your uncle- it might do you harm; don't think about an old man who would be dead long since, were it...
While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert, Henry, that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow him...
Whence, it may be asked, had come that plaything of the tempest? From what part of the world did it rise? It surely could not have started during the storm.
When he chose to take a walk it was with a regular step in the entrance hall with its mosaic flooring, or in the circular gallery with its dome supported by twenty red porphyry Ionic columns, and illu...
When he breakfasted or dined all the resources of the club—its kitchens and pantries, its buttery and dairy—aided to crowd his table with their most succulent stores; he was served by the gravest wait...
What do you want? he said to Passe-partout, whom he took for a native. Do you need a servant, sir? asked Passe-partout. A servant! echoed the Barnum, as he stroked his beard; I have two, obedient and...
What darkness to you is light to me
Well, old Barbicane, they might have cut me into slices, from my feet upwards, before I could have worked out that problem.''Because you don't know algebra,' replied
Was he being devoured by one of those secret rages, all the more terrible because contained, and which only burst forth, with irresistible force, at the last moment?
Was Phileas Fogg rich? Undoubtedly. But those who knew him best could not imagine how he had made his fortune, and Mr. Fogg was the last person to whom to apply for the information. He was not lavish,...
Unhappily for his master, as well as himself, his curiosity drew him unconsciously farther off than he intended to go. At last, having seen the Parsee carnival wind away in the distance, he was turnin...
Thus were formed those immense coalfields, which nevertheless, are not inexhaustible, and which three centuries at the present accelerated rate of consumption will exhaust unless the industrial world...