So, fatality will play me these terrible tricks. The elements themselves conspire to overwhelm me with mortification. Air, fire, and water combine their united efforts to oppose my passage. Well, they...
Huzza for the Queen! Huzza for Old England!
The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to per...
Until I dicover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep.My dear uncle- I began.Nor you either, he added.
Liberty is worth paying for.
The industrial stomach cannot live without coal industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food.
Music is no longer tasted it is swallowed.
I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!
I felt that my true vocation, the sole end of my life, was to chase this disturbing monster and purge it from the world.
Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the p...
Curiosissimo, curiosissimo! diceva tra sé Passepartout nel ritornare a bordo. Mi accorgo che, quando si vogliono vedere cose nuove, viaggiare non è inutile.
It is for others one must learn to do everything for there lies the secret of happiness.
God, if he believed in Him, and his conscience, if he had one, were the only judges to whom he was answerable.
Distance is but a relative expression, and must end by being reduced to zero.
With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.
Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where...
Oh, how hard it is to understand the hearts of girls and women. When they are not the most timid of creatures, they are the bravest. Reason has no part in their lives.
Man is never perfect, nor contended.
A ondulação deste número infinito de montanhas, cujos cumes nevados os fazem parecer como que cobertas por espuma, trouxe a minha lembrança a superfície de um oceano sendo espancado por uma tempestade...