Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

by Jules Verne

“Did I say sharks?” said I hurriedly. “I meant to say a hundred and fifty pearls. Sharks would not be sense.”

Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.

“Sir,” I cried, “are you going to attack this vessel?” “Sir, I am going to sink it.”

If his destiny be strange, it is also sublime.

And to the question asked by Ecclesiastes 3,000 years ago, “That which is far off and exceeding deep, who can find it out?” two men alone of all now living have the right to give an answer— CAPTAIN NEMO AND MYSELF.