“There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!”

“What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!""And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!”

“On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man”

“Look with all your eyes, look.”

“All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.”

“Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.”

“Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.”