Phileas Fogg, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven, and having put his right foot before his left five hundred and seventy-five times, and his left foot before his right five hundred and seventy-six times, reached the Reform Club

Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise.

When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey.

'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change.

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

The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence.