Help!" This was my last cry. My mouth filled with water, I struggled against being drawn the abyss. Suddenly my clothes were seized by a strong hand, and I felt myself quickly drawn up to the surface of the sea; and I heard, yes, I heard these words pronounced in my ear:"If master would be so good as to lean on my shoulder, master would swim with much greater ease." I seized with one hand my faithful Conrail's arm. "Is it you?" said I, "you?"" Myself," answered Conrail; "and waiting master's orders."" That shock threw you as well as me in the sea?"" No; but, being in my master's service, I followed him." The worthy fellow thought that was but natural.

— Jules Verne

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

— Jules Verne

If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

— Jules Verne

I gazed at these marvels in profound silence. Words were utterly wanting to indicate the sensations of wonder I experienced. I seemed, as I stood upon that mysterious shore, as if I were some wandering inhabitant of a distant planet, present for the first time at the spectacle of some terrestrial phenomena belonging to another existence. To give body and existence to such new sensations would have required the coinage of new words - and here my feeble brain found itself wholly at fault. I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether mingled with fear!

— Jules Verne

I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether mingled with fear!

— Jules Verne

In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.

— Jules Verne

In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never out step, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York!

— Jules Verne

In the course of time, Michael Stroganoff 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.

— Jules Verne

In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library.

— Jules Verne

I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own thoughts. They overcome you.

— Jules Verne