R. M. Ballantyne Quotes

• To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in cordial greeting today, are doomed ere long to unite for the last time, when the quivering lips pronounce the word - Farewell

  R. M. Ballantyne

  Goodbye, Farewell, Hands

  R. M. Ballantyne (2016). “The Coral Island: Illustrated”, p.239, Jester House Publishing

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• But although we have noticed the ark as being the first ship, we cannot with propriety place it in the front of the history of navigation. After the flood the ark seems to have been soon forgotten, or at least imperfectly remembered, and men reverted to their little canoes and clumsy boats, which sufficed for all their limited wants. It was not until about a thousand years later in the world

  R. M. Ballantyne

  Men, Years, Sailing

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