“The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.”

“Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.”

“People caught up in the excitement of mutiny could not maintain for long that union which allows great things to be accomplished. A ring leader of mutineers never has anything but an uncertain power in his hands.”

“Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.”

“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.”

“One's native land!―there should one live! there die!”

“Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.”