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.

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.

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.