The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as...
The fewer one's comforts, the fewer one's needs; and the fewer one's needs, the greater one's happiness.
Such were the loud and startling words which resounded through the air, above the vast watery desert of the Pacific, about four o'clock in the evening of the 23rd of March, 1865.
Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes; but of mistakes which lead to the discovery of truth.
P h y j s l y d d q f d z x g a s g z z q q e h x g k f n d r x u j u g I o c y t d x v k s b x h h u y p o h d v y r y m h u h p u y d k j o x p h e t o z l s l e t n p m v f f o v p d p a j x h y y...
Night came. The moon was entering her first quarter, and her insufficient light would soon die out in the mist on the horizon. Clouds were rising from the east, and already overcast a part of the heav...
It may be said here that the wise policy of the British Government severely punishes a disregard of the practices of the native religions.
It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
Il mare è tutto. Copre i sette decimi del globo terrestre. Il suo respiro è puro e sano. È l'immenso deserto dove l'uomo non è mai solo, poiché sente fremere la vita accanto a sé. Il mare non è altro...
I am the law, and I am the judge!
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...
As long as this heart goes on beating, I can't admit that any creature endowed with will-power should ever despair.
As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme
In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the...
You must never make snap judgments about your fellow man.
The solar rays seemed to be extinguished by successive gradations, until its vague transparency became nothing more than drowned light
Submarine valley
La detinée les éloigna parfois, mais la sympathie les réunit toujours
Wait a few minutes, our lantern will be lit, and, if you like light places, you will be satisfied.
The thunderbolt without the reverberations of thunder would frighten man but little, though the danger lies in the lightning, not in the noise.