Wave Sails

Famous quotes containing the words wave and/or sails:

“The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“It was a poetic recreation to watch those distant sails steering for half-fabulous ports, whose very names are a mysterious music to our ears.... It is remarkable that men do not sail the sea with more expectation. Nothing was ever accomplished in a prosaic mood.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)