“That’s what I’ve been thinking,” he said; “that’s what I’ve been thinking. Most of the people were hard at it squealing and exciting themselves. I’ve...

On each side a window opened into this unexplored abyss. The obscurity of the saloon showed to advantage the brightness outside, and we looked out as ...

I have tried to keep an open mind; and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, th...

My internal being was in a state of insurrection and turmoil; I felt that order would thence arise, but I had no power to produce it.

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. And...

Still it was a positive fact that someone was speaking. A dread fell upon my soul that it might be my own words brought back to me by a distant echo. ...

At this moment nothing is clear to me; I catch but a glimpse of light amidst all the darkness, and I must confine myself to writing as events shall di...

It’s saving our knowledge and adding to it is the thing. We must make great safe places down deep, and get all the books we can; not novels and poetry...

And even if there’s a delay, how can it alter the end? There’s the ants builds their cities, live their lives, have wars, revolutions, until the men w...

I began in the newly aroused ardor of my soul to speak enthusiastically to the Professor. The whole state in which we existed was a mystery--and it wa...

Then, addressing me as if to chase away some sorrowful thought: “M. Aronnax,” he asked, “do you know the depth of the ocean?” “I only know, Captain, w...