Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning,--an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

My soul is full of longing
for the secret of the sea,
and the heart of the great ocean
sends a thrilling pulse through me.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me.

It takes less time to do things right that to explain why you did it wrong.