It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone. . . . It seemed to me like trying to walk on the Atlantic Ocean to obtain recognition in the literary world. Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. J. Agel and W. Glanze, 1987. The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service.
Think of this and act. Of course it's fresh, we're on the ocean. Of course it's for sale, we're not giving it away. Of course it's here, otherwise the sign would be someplace else. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave.