Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
Why, you are a man of heart!Sometimes, replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. When I have the time.
What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
Very likely, replied the seaman; but, as we don't know, we must work all the same. Better to have two strings to one's bow than no string at all!
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
Phileas Fogg, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven, and having put his right foot before his left five hundred and seventy-five times, and his left foot before his right five hundred...
Perfume is the soul of the flower, and sea-flowers have no soul.
One's native land!there should one live! there die!
If some volcano in the Alleghanies threatens North Carolina with a disaster similar to that of Martinique, buried beneath the outpourings of Mont Pelee, then these people must leave their homes.
I dream with my eyes open.
However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
Help!This was my last cry. My mouth filled with water, I struggled against being drawn the abyss. Suddenly my clothes were seized by a strong hand, and I felt myself quickly drawn up to the surface of...
The Chinaman has only a passive courage, but this courage he possesses in the highest degree. His indifference to death is truly extraordinary. When he is ill, he sees it approach, and does not falter...
Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd...
The human imagination soon got caught up in the most ridiculous ichthyological fantasies.
Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.
Me entusiasmaba la idea de atravesar el Atlántico sobre aquel gigantesco barco.
Life is not all sunshine, but yet I would willingly consent to live ten centuries out of pure curiosity! That