My uncle wasted a great deal of breath in giving him directions, but worthy Hans took not the slightest notice of his words. - Jules Verne

If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity.

Phileas Fogg, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven, and having put his right foot before his left five hundred and seventy-five times, and his left foot before his right five hundred and seventy-six times, reached the Reform Club

But Heaven never sends unmixed grief, and for Professor Liedenbrock there was a satisfaction in store proportioned to his desperate anxieties.