“He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.”

“Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions”

“Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.”

“One single supporter remained faithful to him: an old paralytic, Lord Albermarle. The noble lord, confined to his armchair, would have given his whole fortune to be able to travel around the world, in ten years even; and he bet four thousand pounds on Phileas Fogg.”

“The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.”

“I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.”

“Alluding to the extent of Florida, a mere peninsula confined between two seas, they pretended that it could never sustain the shock of the discharge, and that it would "bust up" at the very first shot."Very well, let it bust up!" replied the Floridans, with a brevity of the days of ancient Sparta.”