Jules Verne Man Quotations

A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth.

If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence.

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.

When you bring a man two millions of money, you need have but little fear that you will not be well received.

It is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles will find himself capable of any evil.

The wisest man may be a blind father.

It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words.

Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to achieve

The way of describing this unlooked-for scene, the history of the patriot ship, told at first so coldly, and the emotion with which this strange man pronounced the last words, the name of the Avenger, the significance of which could not escape me, all impressed itself deeply on my mind. My eyes did not leave the Captain, who, with his hand stretched out to sea, was watching with a glowing eye the glorious wreck.

What one man can think, another man can do.