“The great sea makes one a great sceptic.”
“There is great literature about imprisonment, . . . about the foot soldier, . . . about the sea -- but not one great work about flying.”
“Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.”
“...a sea to intensely blue to be looked at, and a sky of purple, set with one great flaming jewel of fire...”
“I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence.”
“The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea.”