A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.

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

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

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

Books may be written in all sorts of places. Verbal inspiration may enter the berth of a mariner on board a ship frozen fast in a river in the middle of a town.

Here's the main page of motivational quotes, if you want a different topic. Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.