The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.