“Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.”

“Let him who loves, where love success may find,
Spread all his sails before the prosp'rous wind;
But let poor youths who female scorn endure,
And hopeless burn, repair to me for cure.”
Siquis amat quod amare iuvat, feliciter ardens Gaudeat, et vento naviget ille suo. At siquis male fert indignae regna puellae, Ne pereat, nostrae sentiat artis opem.

“Far the horizon
Hove to the wind;
We're sailing the sea
To the Edge of the World.”

“It is easy to spread the sails to propitious winds, and to cultivate in different ways a rich soil, and to give lustre to gold and ivory, when the very raw material itself shines.”
Facile est ventis dare vela secundis, Fecundumque solum varias agitare per artes, Auroque atque ebori decus addere, cum rudis ipsa Materies niteat.

“Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.”

“The mind is like a sea, few are those who dare sail, most stand on the shore and watch. Artist pages.”

“Spread sail! For it is Hope today that like a wind new-risen
Doth waft us on a golden wing towards a new horizon,
That is the sun before our sight, the beacon for us burning,
That is the star in all our night of watching and of yearning.”

“We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.”

“There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it, and those who stay at home and dream of them.”

“Those with power would always find some way to exert it over those who didn’t.”