What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?

The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence.

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin.

'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change.

The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears.