Jules Verne

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

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

Man is never perfect nor contented.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.