Quotes from Richard Henry Dana

If California ever becomes a prosperous country, this bay [San Francisco] will be the center of its prosperity.

Six days shalt thou labor and do all thou art able,And on the seventh—holystone the decks and scrape the cable.

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

There is something in the clear blue warm sea of the tropics, which gives to the stranger a feeling of unreality.