Was The Crew Well? Was I Not?

Was The Crew Well? Was I Not? I Had Profited In Many Ways By The Voyage. I Had Even Gained Flesh, And Actually Weighed A Pound More Than When I Sailed From Boston.

I Had Already Found That It Was Not Good To Be Alone, And So I Made Companionship With What There Was Around Me, Sometimes With The Universe And Sometimes With My Own Insignificant Self; But My Books Were Always My Friends, Let Fail All Else.

To Young Men Contemplating A Voyage I Would Say Go.

I Once Knew A Writer Who, After Saying Beautiful Things About The Sea, Passed Through A Pacific Hurricane, And He Became A Changed Man.

If The Spray Discovered No Continents On Her Voyage, It May Be That There Were No More Continents To Be Discovered. She Did Not Seek New Worlds, Or Sail To Pow-wow About The Dangers Of The Sea.