He was brown, however, with blue eyes, in which the crystalline sparkled with ardent fire.

His seaman's craft had already prepared him well for the conflicts of life.

His intelligent physiognomy breathed forth energy.

It was not that of an audacious person, it was that of a darer.

These three words from an unfinished verse of Virgil are often cited: "Audaces fortuna juvat"....
but they are quoted incorrectly.