Jules Verne

“Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me.
I nodded.
'And he's taking you with him?'
I nodded again.
'Where?' she asked.
I pointed towards the centre of the earth.
'Into the cellar?' exclaimed the old servant.
'No,' I said, 'farther down than that.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth 

     Jules Verne wrote some great adventure novels.  He wrote Journey to the Center of the Earth in 1864.

“But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey?
Nothing, you say? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men!
Truly, would you not for less than that make the tour around the world?”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days 

He wrote several other great adventure novels.

Lao Tzu

If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present. - Lao Tzu

  

The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness. - Lao Tzu

 

 Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it. - Lao Tzu

Those who know do not say. Those who say do not know. - Lao Tzu

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. - Lao Tzu

Chinese myths claim Lao Tzu was born as a full grown man, complete with a full gray beard.  He was in his mother's womb for 62 years.  He was reborn thirteen times.  He lived 990 years during his final reincarnation.