“The sea will grant each man new hopeThe sleep brings dreams of home.”

“The world is round.”

“The dream was floating off satisfactorily on an inner sea.”

“The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”

“When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night—there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean.”

“Sometimes,' she said, 'it takes a woman to bring out the best in a man.”

“Today the population of non-scientists legitimately feel they deserve a say in how far man should take for granted that the Earth is 'his' to treat as he chooses”