"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success"
Nothing can bring a couple closer together, can enhance mutual respect any faster than the interdependence required of a couple to handle a sailboat smartly. In addition, cruising offers such a wide array of possible activities that both partners can satisfy their expectations of a cruise even when the expectations are quite different.
"Enrichment has nothing to do with dollars and cents"
"Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off"
"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
"I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of."
"We live but a fraction of our life. Why do we not let on the flood, raise the gates, and set all our wheels in motion?"
