He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
He that can have patience can have what he will.
A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.
What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of her works has Nature been more seconded by the ingenuity of man than in this, by his inventions of sails and of oars?
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?
'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
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.