"Men, Pencroft, however learned they may be, can never change anything of the cosmographical order established by God Himself." "And yet," added Penc… - Jules Verne

"What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!"
"And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!"

An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.

I suppose that, after visiting the curious coasts of Arabia and Egypt, the Nautilus will go down the Indian Ocean again, perhaps cross the Channel of Mozambique, perhaps off the Mascarenhas, so as to gain the Cape of Good Hope.

But you perceive, my boy, that it is not so, and that facts, as usual, are very stubborn things, overruling all theories.