“Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks" "Yes, sir, of sharks and men.”

“No sir, it is evidently a gigantic narwhal”

“What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!""And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!”

“Are we rising again?" "No. On the contrary." "Are we descending?" "Worse than that, captain! we are falling!" "For Heaven's sake heave out the ballast!" "There! the last sack is empty!" "Does the balloon rise?" "No!" "I hear a noise like the dashing of waves. The sea is below the car! It cannot be more than 500 feet from us!" "Overboard with every weight! … everything!”

“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.”

“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.”

“The earth does not need new continents, but new men.”