Quotes from Jules Verne

You're never rich enough if you can be richer.

I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.

Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long since lost all its vital heat.

Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate into all its secrets.

Man is never perfect nor contented.

It is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles will find himself capable of any evil.

A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.

You seize sentiment better when you get clear of nature. You breathe it in every sense!

Man's constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter. No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words.

....oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs in order to gain the 315 grammes of nitrogen he requires daily.

What one man can think, another man can do.

The wisest man may be a blind father.

What you do for money you do badly.

The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.

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.

All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.

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.

With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.

Ah, monsieur, to live in the bosom of the sea! Only there can independence be found! There I recognize no master! There I am free!

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain.

So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.