One's native land!there should one live! there die!
Distance is but a relative expression, and must end by being reduced to zero.
While there is life, there is hope.
God, if he believed in Him, and his conscience, if he had one, were the only judges to whom he was answerable.
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...
The man who was born to be hung will never be drowned!
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.
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.
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
To the poet a pearl is a tear of the sea
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It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
I declare it is easy to lead a snail's life.
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...
Your story is not a picture of life; it lacks the elements of truth. And why? Simply because you run straight on to the end; because you do not analyze. Your heroes do this thing or that from this or...
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
The earth does not want new continents, but new men.
Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
No sir, it is evidently a gigantic narwhal
Era uno di quegli esseri bizzarri che il Creatore inventa per capriccio e di cui spezza subito lo stampo.