Believe me my young friend; there is nothing,…… absolutely nothing half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of them it doesn’t matter……. Nothing seems to really matter, that’s the charm of it.“

Whether you get away or whether you don’t,…… whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you’re always busy and you never do anything in particular, and when you’ve done it there’s always something else to do, and you can do it if you like but you’d much better not.”