Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other.

All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other.

For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming...

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?