“For Rhime the Rudder is of Verses,
With which like Ships they steer their courses.”

“It is time that we steered by the stars, not by the lights of each passing ship.”

“Happy who in his verse can gently steer
From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.”

“Steer the course, make a way / And come ashore on a greater day”

“Life is more than just steering a course around pain.”

“Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.”

“Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.”

“A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.”

“You should not surrender to these men once for all the rudders of your mind, as if of a ship, and follow them whithersoever they lead; rather, accepting from them only that which is useful, you should know that which ought to be overlooked. What, therefore, these things are, and how we shall distinguish between them, is the lesson which I shall teach you.”

“Besides, time, which despoils castles, enriches verses... Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.”