02UndatedDeath, the beginning of eternal things, is only the end of earthly cares. -PriestJules Verne / quote ↗
03UndatedWhen I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had no means now of taking account of time. Never was solitude equal to this, never had any living being been so utterly forsaken.Jules Verne / quote ↗
04UndatedThough sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!Jules Verne / quote ↗
06UndatedHelp!"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 the sea; and I heard, yes, I heard these words pronounced in my ear:"If master would be so good as to lean on my shoulder, master would swim with much greater ease."I seized with one hand my faithful Conseil's arm. "Is it you?" said I, "you?""Myself," answered Conseil; "and waiting master's orders.""That shock threw you as well as me in the sea?""No; but, being in my master's service, I followed him."The worthy fellow thought that was but natural.Jules Verne / quote ↗
10UndatedI wanted to protect my professorial dignity and not lay myself open to laughter from the Americans, who when they do laugh, laugh raucouslyJules Verne / quote ↗
11UndatedBefore all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.Jules Verne / quote ↗
12UndatedI believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.Jules Verne / quote ↗
13UndatedYour story is not a picture of life; it lacks the elements of truth. And why? Simply because you run straight on to the end; because you do not analyze. Your heroes do this thing or that from this or that motive, which you assign without ever a thought of dissecting their mental and moral natures. Our feelings, you must remember, are far more complex than all that. In real life every act is theresultant of a hundred thoughts that come and go, and theseyou must study, each by itself, if you would create a livingcharacter. 'But,' you will say, 'in order to note these fleetingthoughts one must know them, must be able to follow them in their capricious meanderings.You have simply to make use of hypnotism, electrical or human, which gives one a two-fold being, setting free the witness-personality so that it may see, understand, and remember the reasons which determine the personality that acts.Jules Verne / quote ↗
14UndatedGod, if he believed in Him, and his conscience, if he had one, were the only judges to whom he was answerable.Jules Verne / quote ↗
15UndatedScience, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.Jules Verne / quote ↗
17UndatedIn 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 planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York!Jules Verne / quote ↗
18UndatedPut two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.Jules Verne / quote ↗
19UndatedThe sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.Jules Verne / quote ↗
20UndatedThe Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them applying their audacious ingenuity to the science of gunnery.Jules Verne / quote ↗
21UndatedEverything 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 telegraph?Jules Verne / quote ↗
22UndatedIt is for others one must learn to do everything for there lies the secret of happiness.Jules Verne / quote ↗
23UndatedWith happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.Jules Verne / quote ↗
24UndatedNothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.Jules Verne / quote ↗
