Like snails, we were fixed to our shells, and I declare it is easy to lead a snail's life. - Jules Verne

I declare it is easy to lead a snail's life.

What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?

It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

Still, for long the love of science triumphed over all other feelings. He became an artist deeply impressed by the marvels of art, a philosopher to whom no one of the higher sciences was unknown, a statesman versed in the policy of European courts. To the eyes of those who observed him superficially he might have passed for one of those cosmopolitans, curious of knowledge, but disdaining action; one of those opulent travelers, haughty and cynical, who move incessantly from place to place, and are of no country.