"Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, Miguel de Cervantes, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack London--all served in navies, worked in shipping, or sailed around the world, all turned their experiences of adventure on the high seas into great literature."
"The world is as young today, as when it was created; and this Vermont morning dew is as wet to my feet, as Eden's dew to Adam's. Not has Nature been all over ransacked by our progenitors, so that no new charms and mysteries remain for this latter generation to find. Far from it. The trillionth part "