Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship's wake.

They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.

I do not know whether I have been a good seaman, but I know I have been a very faithful one.

Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.

To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.

A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!

For a moment I had a view of a world that seemed to wear a vast and dismal aspect of disorder, while, in truth, thanks to our unwearied efforts, it is as sunny an arrangement of small conveniences as the mind of man can conceive.