Los viajeros, encarcelados en un nuevo satélite, si bien es verdad que no habían alcanzado su objetivo, formaban al menos parte del mundo lunar; gravitaban alrededor del astro de la noche, y por prime...
Like snails, we were fixed to our shells, and I declare it is easy to lead a snail's life.
Kâlagani evidently knew this thinly-peopled region perfectly, and guided us across it most admirably. On the 29th September our train began to ascend the northern slope of the Vindyas, in order to rea...
In two days there won't be a single leak, and our boat will have no more water in her than there is in the stomach of a drunkard.
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 say, you do have a heart!Sometimes, he replied, when I have the time.
As long as this heart goes on beating, I can't admit that any creature endowed with will-power should ever despair.
Abre bien los ojos, mira.
I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own th...
Still, for long the love of science triumphed over all other feelings. He became an artist deeply impressed by the marvels of art, a philosopher to whom no one of the higher sciences was unknown, a st...
To the poet a pearl is a tear of the sea
The solar rays seemed to be extinguished by successive gradations, until its vague transparency became nothing more than drowned light
[...] atâta vreme cât îi bate inima, atâta vreme cât trupul îi este viu, nu admit ca o ființă înzestrată cu voință să se lase cuprinsă de disperare!
We must look upon what is to occur as having already occurred, and see nothing but the present in the future, for the future is but the present a little farther on.
Wait a few minutes, our lantern will be lit, and, if you like light places, you will be satisfied.
To the sheepfold!
These are just some arms in the service of a head. Is not this the true organization of the force?
The best plan of all, said I, would certainly be to carry one’s house with one. Oh you snail! cried Banks. My friend, replied I, a snail who could leave his shell, and return to it at pleasure, wo...
Suppose we save this woman. Save the woman, Mr. Fogg! I have yet twelve hours to spare; I can devote them to that. Why, you are a man of heart! Sometimes, replied Phileas Fogg, quietly; when I have th...
So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established...