Jules Verne Life Quotations

However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not 'disgraced' because it flies before the tempest. A commander ought always to remember that a man's life is worth more than the mere satisfaction of his own pride. In any case, to be obstinate is blameable, and to be wilful is dangerous.

Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself?

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

What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?

There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, - in God's good time