Whoever calls himself Canadian calls himself French. - Jules Verne

As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme

When I saw myself thus wholly cut off from human succour, incapable of attempting anything for my deliverance, I thought of heavenly succour. Memories of my childhood, of my mother...came back to me. I began to pray, little as I deserved that God should know me when I had forgotten Him so long; and I prayed fervently.

"There is the disadvantage of not knowing all languages," said Conseil, "or the disadvantage of not having one universal language."