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.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

You have the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of England, the Presbyterians, the Wesleyans, represented in each school, and they are each to take alternate days.

I think he had a wake-up call. It's a different kind of race, and I think maybe he didn't take it quite as seriously as he might have, but you can bet he learned a lot of lessons.