Quote by Jules Verne

“I observed mildness of temper, and unchangeable resolution in the things that he had determined after due deliberation; and no vainglory in those things…

— Marcus Aurelius

“It is a human characteristic, which has been richly exploited in every era, that while hope of survival is still alive in a man,…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life. A…

— Herman Melville

“A man of action as well as a man of thought, all he did was without effort to one of his vigorous and sanguine…

— Jules Verne

“There was something pathetic in his concentration, as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him anymore.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He suffered incessantly from the fact that his critical faculties transcended his constructive capacities. In a manner of speaking, his critical sense robbed him…

— Albert Einstein

“The majority understood that his passivity was not that of a hero taking his ease but that of a cataclysm in repose.”

— No One Writes to the Colonel Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“He considered his disposition as of the sort which must suffer heavily, uniting very strong feelings with quiet,serious, and retiring manners, and a decided…

— Jane Austen

Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in…

— Thomas Carlyle

“After a lifetime of living by his wits and his considerable memory, he had given himself full time to the profession of forgetting.”

— John le Carré

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches…

— Robert Peel

“It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being, in vain he…

— Charles William Eliot