There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness.

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas.

The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.

Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said, that continual success is a proof that a man wisely knows his powers,--it is only to be added, that, in that case, he knows them to be small.

I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.