“The soul throbs like the sea for a larger life. No thought which I have ever had has satisfied my soul.”

“It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine; I am in it as the butterfly in the light-laden air. Nothing has to come; it is now. Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.”

“The great sea makes one a great sceptic.”

“Let us get of these indoor narrow modern days, whose twelve hours somehow have become shortened, into the sunlight and the pure wind. A something that the ancients thought divine can be found and felt there still.”

“This is the edge of the Universe, just a few feet above Hell.”

“Thank you...for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.”

“Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and discipline, at my word waits every tool and sail, every cannon, the strength of every soul on board. I’m master of a team of passionate skills to sail me through hell’s own jaws the second I nod the direction to steer.”