Jules Verne Cannot Quotations

To put up with what you cannot avoid is a philosophical principle, that may not perhaps lead you to the accomplishment of great deeds, but is assuredly eminently practical.

In the United States, there is no project so audacious for which people cannot be found to guarantee the cost and find the working expenses.

You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.

The industrial stomach cannot live without coal; industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food.

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.