“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”

“There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.”

“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”

“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.”

“Friendship is Love without his wings!”

“Absence - that common cure of love.”

“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.”

“Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tid...”

“And slowly, infinitely slowly, he began to trust. Not the sea, from from it; no one should make that mistake!”