The artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring.

The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.

The mind of man is capable of anything.

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.

For there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence.

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.