To know the laws that govern the winds, and to know that you know them, will give you an easy mind on your voyage round the world; otherwise you may …

- Joshua Slocum

They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some one said they came to arrest me, an…

- Joshua Slocum

To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed ov…

- Joshua Slocum

But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?

- Joshua Slocum

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 some…

- Joshua Slocum

As for myself, the wonderful sea charmed me from the first.

- Joshua Slocum

I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.

- Joshua Slocum

The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.

- Joshua Slocum

To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.

- Joshua Slocum