Photographer Unknown, (Full Sail On)

“So quiet, too, was the sea, and so steady the breeze, that if these sails had been sculptured marble they could not have been more motionless. Not a ripple upon the surface of the canvas; not even a quivering of the extreme edges of the sail, so perfectly were they distended by the breeze. I was so lost in the sight that I forgot the presence of the man who came out with me, until he said  … half to himself, still looking at the marble sails,— “How quietly they do their work!”
―  Richard Henry Dana Jr., Two Years Before the Mast