Aphorism Ten: “Possess ability in the abstract!”
Full Quote: “When a water-clerk who possesses ability in the abstract has also the advantage of having been brought up to the sea, he is worth to his employer a lot of money and some humouring.” Harper & Row, Perennial Classics, 1965 (1899), p. 4.
Aphorism Eleven: “Seek a lower achievement if it will do the turn!”
Full Quote: “Otherwise he was rather glad he had not gone into the cutter, since a lower achievement had served the turn.” P. 7
Aphorism Twelve: “We determine our own moral identity!”
Full Quote: “It was solemn, and a little ridiculous, too, as they always are, those struggles of an individual trying to save from the fire his idea of what his moral identity should be…” p. 58.
Aphorism Thirteen: “There are as many shipwrecks as there are men!”
Full Quote: “Of course, as with belief, though, love, hate, conviction, or even the visual aspect of material things, there are as many shipwrecks as there are men..” p. 86.
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