I felt that my true vocation, the sole end of my life, was to chase this disturbing monster and purge it from the world. - Jules Verne

While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert...that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.

Then don’t you despair?” I cried irritably.

“No, certainly not,” was the professor’s firm reply.

“What! Do you think there is any chance of safety left?”

“Yes, I do; as long as the heart beats, as long as the body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.

I have been, am, in his service; I have seen his generosity and goodness; and I will never betray him-not for all the gold in the world. I have come from a village where they don't eat that kind of bread.