Jules Verne — "It is a great joy to be alive and to see the world."

"An English philosopher, named Locke, has stated that 'the human mind is a blank sheet of paper, whereon experience writes its lessons.'"

"That Indian, sir, is an inhabitant of an oppressed country; and I am still, and shall be, to my last breath, one of them!"

"They first passed through the “black town,” with its narrow streets, its miserable, dirty huts, and squalid population; then through the “European town,” which presented a relief in its bright brick m…"

"The sea is an inexhaustible storehouse of natural beauty."

"Democracy is the rule of the mob; an educated elite should govern."