To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
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- I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.
- Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.
- Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
- Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
- Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.