Robert Louis Stevenson Quotation

The schooner turned upon her heel, the anchor plunged. It was a small sound, a great event; my soul went down these moorings whence no windlass may extract nor any diver fish it up; and I, and some part of my ship’s company, were from that hour the bond slaves of the isles …

Joseph Conrad Quotation

Some of us, regarding the ocean with understanding and affection, have seen it looking old, as if the immemorial ages had been stirred up from the undisturbed bottom of ooze. For it is a gale of wind that makes the sea look old.