The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.
We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!