I looked with real admiration at this room, so ingeniously fitted up, and I could scarcely believe my eyes.
"Captain Nemo," said I to my host, who had just thrown himself on one of the divans, "this is a library which would do honour to more than one of the continental palaces, and I am absolutely astounded when I consider that it can follow you to the bottom of the seas." "Where could one find greater solitude or silence, Professor ?" replied Captain Nemo.

"Did your study in the Museum afford you such perfect quiet ?" "No, sir; and I must confess that it is a very poor one after yours.
You must have six or seven thousand volumes here." "Twelve thousand, M.Aronnax.

These are the only ties which bind me to the earth.

But I had done with the world on the day when my Nautilus plunged for the first time beneath the waters.

That day I bought my last volumes, my last pamphlets, my last papers, and from that time I wish to think that men no longer think or write.