Jules Verne — "'There is no impossibility,' said the Professor, 'for him who wills.'"

"The sea is nothing but a huge aquarium."

"He describes his lone black character in the most appalling terms. This includes various racially charged stereotypes. ... (Grimacier, gourmand, paresseux et surtout d'une poltronnerie superbe)."

"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…"

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

"The sea is a friend to those who know it."