We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.

We cannot learn men from books.

All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever present perils of life.

At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.