At the sun’s hour of morning song.
Known of souls only, and those souls free,
The sacred spaces of the sea.
A. C. Swinburne (Prelude—Songs before Sunrise).
The sea typifies the wider, nobler life of the soul.
Je prends mon bien où je le trouve.
(I take my property wherever I find it.)
Molière (1622-1673).
This famous saying is quoted in French literature as though Molière had said, “I admit plagiarism, but I so improve what I borrow from others that it becomes my own” (see Larousse, under “Bien”).