"We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones" — Jules-Gabriel Verne

The poetry of the earth is never dead

Source: On the Grasshopper and Cricket (1816)

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth

Source: Letter to James Madison (Mar. 2, 1788)

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing

Source: Letter to James Madison (Jan. 30, 1787)

All are architects of fate, working in these walls of time

Source: The Builders, The Seaside and the Fireside (1850)

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife

Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

Lawyer: One skilled in circumvention of the law

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Jules-Gabriel Verne Quote