It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.
It is very simple, said the Indian. A direct line takes us from the Delhi railroad to that of Bombay. The junction is at Allahabad. Between Etawah and the frontier of Bundelkund, there is but one impo...
If we may die at any moment, we may also be saved at any moment. So let us be prepared to seize the slightest opportunity.
If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity.
I wanted to protect my professorial dignity and not lay myself open to laughter from the Americans, who when they do laugh, laugh raucously
I suppose that, after visiting the curious coasts of Arabia and Egypt, the Nautilus will go down the Indian Ocean again, perhaps cross the Channel of Mozambique, perhaps off the Mascarenhas, so as to...
I am induced to think, said Pencroft, that this man was not wrecked on Tabor Island, but that in consequence of some crime he was left there.
But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey?Nothing, you say? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it m...
Better have two strings to one’s bow than none at all!
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
It was marvellous, a feast for the eyes, this complication of coloured tints, a perfect kaleidoscope of green, yellow, orange, violet, indigo, and blue; in one word, the whole palette of an enthusiast...
Indian dancing-girls, clothed in rose-coloured gauze, looped up with gold and silver, danced airily, but with perfect modesty, to the sound of viols and the clanging of tambourines.
I declare it is easy to lead a snail's life.
His tales took on the form of an epic poem, and I felt I was hearing some Canadian Homer reciting his Iliad of the High Arctic regions.
Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.
El radio trazado por mi mazo -dijo con aire doctoral, no sin hacer alguna mueca de dolor de vez en cuando- ha
Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric tel...
What you do for money you do badly.
Walls were invented simply to frustrate scientists. All walls should be banned.
Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.