To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts ... all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

Some of us, regarding the ocean with understanding and affection, have seen it looking old, as if the immemorial ages had been stirred up from the undisturbed bottom of ooze. For it is a gale of wind that makes the sea look old.

The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation

The sea never changes and its works, for all the talks of men, are wrapped in mystery.

As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.