He who does not know

his way to the sea

should take a river

for his guide.

  [Fr., Les rivieres sont des

 chemins qui marchant et

qui portent ou l'on veut aller.]

      - Blaise Pascal,

I saw the long line

 of the vacant shore,

  The sea-weed and the

shells upon the sand,

    And the brown rocks left

bare on every hand,

      As if the ebbing tide

would flow no more.

   - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow