He loved the idea of far voyages.

The smells of cargoes and warehouses composed a sea-bouquet for him which he esteemed sweeter than all the scents of hedges and wood.

If there was a big man for him in the world it was the sailor.
I don't think he had so profound a feeling for bankers.

Not quite so downright as Lord Leverhulme in stating his opinion of bankers, Lord Inverforth nevertheless regards them on the whole as lacking in courage and imagination.

He said to himself on his banker's stool, "I will learn all I can, but I won't stay here; I'll be a shipowner." In his twentieth year he bought a sailing ship.