"Truly, to enjoy thoroughly the true poetry of the sea, your poem must preserve all its wildest prose."

"A polar wind blows through a hell of ice and snow."

"For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the folly of man."

"Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian."

"It is better to be a dog and bay at the moon than to be a man and fear the unknown."