If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity. - Jules Verne
In light-hearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned. - Jules Verne
In the course of time, Michael Strogoff reached a high station in the Empire. But it is not the history of his success, but the history of his trials, which deserves to be related. - Jules Verne
It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason. - Jules Verne
It is better for us to see the destination we wish to reach, than the point of departure. - Jules Verne
It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it. - Jules Verne
It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover. - Jules Verne
It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise. - Jules Verne
On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it. - Jules Verne
On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man. - Jules Verne
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them. - Jules Verne
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. - Jules Verne
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