"As for me, I am a savage, owing no allegiance but to the King of the Cannibals; and ready at any time to rebel against him."

"All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea."

"Every man's life is a train of events, in which many a caboose is coupled to the engine."

"There is nothing in the world so much like a man as a ship."

"I try all things, I achieve what I can."