Jules Verne
Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Vernewas a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 February 1828
CityNantes, France
CountryFrance
land
You are going to visit the land of marvels.
way fortune ready
Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.
house heaven may
My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends.
describing
But Phileas Fogg, who was not traveling, but only describing a circumfrence,...
war ocean men
On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man
eccentric
Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
eye men mind
But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
tides train
Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
war cities clubs
During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland
solitude endurance isolation
Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
men perfect
Man is never perfect nor contented.
achieve capable man men whatever
Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to achieve