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

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

The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?

Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself?

When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey.

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.