En este país todo contribuye a esa poesía natural iniciada en el corazón de los montañeses: Lo mismo sucede en todos los países montañosos. La imaginación está excitada por estas maravillas, y si l...
Why, I've just this instant found out... that we might have gone around the world in only seventy-eight days.
While there is life, there is hope.
We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
There is the disadvantage of not knowing all languages, said Conseil, or the disadvantage of not having one universal language.
The man who was born to be hung will never be drowned!
The fewer one's comforts, the fewer one's needs; and the fewer one's needs, the greater one's happiness.
The earth doesn't need new continents, but new men!
The earth does not want new continents, but new men.
THE DEEPEST PARTS OF THE ocean are totally unknown to us, admits Professor Aronnax early in this novel. What goes on in those distant depths? What creatures inhabit, or could inhabit, those regions tw...
Some of these tusks have been found buried in the bodies of whales, which the unicorn always attacks with success.
Sir, replied the commander, I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus.
Sir Francis, recognising the statue, whispered, The goddess Kali; the goddess of love and death.
Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes; but of mistakes which lead to the discovery of truth.
Poh! doctor, one has only just to follow things along as they happen, and he can always work his way out of a scrape! The safest plan, you see, is to take matters as they come.
Pero, ¿qué había ganado con esa excursión? ¿Qué había traído de su viaje? Nada, se dirá. Nada, enhorabuena, a no ser una linda mujer, que, por inverosímil que parezca, le hizo el más feliz de los hom...
Nothing, say you? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men!
No sir, it is evidently a gigantic narwhal
Nebraska,
Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.