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

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed

A minimum put to good use is enough for anything.

"Why, you are a man of heart!"
"Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. "When I have the time."