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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Sailing is such a variable sport. There could be no wind, or there could be 25 knots. You never know what you're going to get.

The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.