He enters the port with a full sail.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.
As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary.
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.