Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
William Penn

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
Joseph Addison

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.
Thomas Campion

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
Alexander Pope

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.
John Calvin

Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.
Lowell Thomas

The white sail of his soul has rounded the promontory - death.
William Alexander

There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.
Soichiro Honda

This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.
Donald Cram

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
Franz Grillparzer

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
David Hare

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
Augustus Hare

Thus, I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale.
Matthew Green

'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.
Henry Van Dyke

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
William Osler

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.
John F. Kennedy