Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!
What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?
He was a bearded, tranquil Byron, who might live on a thousand years without growing old.
The Ranee was killed in a hand to hand fight before Gwalior. This famous queen, who was devoted to the Nabob, and was his most faithful companion during the insurrection, fell by the hand of Sir Edwar...
Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes; but of mistakes which lead to the discovery of truth. And
Perfume is the soul of the flower, and sea-flowers have no soul.
Everything, it said, was against the travellers, every obstacle imposed alike by man and by nature. A miraculous agreement of the times of departure and arrival, which was impossible, was absolutely n...
All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
The sea is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and life-giving. It is an immense desert place where man is never lonely, for he senses the weaving of Creati...
The earth doesn't need new continents, but new men!
That terrible avenger, a perfect archangel of hatred.
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...
Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.
Les murs n’ont été inventés que pour agacer les savants. Il ne devrait y avoir de murs nulle part.
I wanted to protect my professorial dignity and not lay myself open to laughter from the Americans, who when they do laugh, laugh raucously
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...
But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey? Nothing, say you? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it...
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...