“A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.”

“A smooth sea never made a skilled marine.”

“Death is a shadow that always follows the body”

“The absent are always wrong.”

“Everyone must row with the oars he has.”

“The shortest answer is doing.”

“So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible.”

“When you start doing the impossible, you make it possible”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.”