Jules Verne

"Chronological differences are effaced in the memory of the dead."

"Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely…"

"The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of man's superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, an…"

"Men, however learned they may be, can never change anything of the cosmographical order established by God Himself."

"What a big book might be made with all that is known. And what a much bigger book still with all that is not."

"Yes, but water decomposed into its primitive elements... and decomposed doubtless, by electricity, which will then have become a powerful and manageable force, for all great discoveries, by some inexp…"

"It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason."

"Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another"