A babe is a mother's anchor. [ Beecher ]

To man, in this his trial state,
The privilege is given,
When tost by tides of human fate,
To anchor fast in heaven. [ Watts ]

What though the mast be now blown overboard,
The cable broke, the holding anchor lost,
And half our sailors swallow'd in the flood?
Yet lives our pilot still. [ Shakespeare,Henry VI ]

Cast all your care on God; that anchor holds. [ Tennyson ]

Feeling is deep and still, and the word that floats on the surface
Is as the tossing buoy that betrays where the anchor is hidden. [ Longfellow ]

Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly. [ Hazlitt ]

Yet the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle. [ Ben Jonson ]

Always driven toward new shores, or carried hence without hope of return, shall we never, on the ocean of age, cast anchor for even a day! [ Lamartine ]

Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest. [ Pythagoras ]

A good library is an anchor to keep a young man from roving, and a helm to aid an old man to gain the greatest possible benefit from what remains of the breeze. [ W. D. Haley ]

It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain, when there was nothing else to do, would issue the order to scour the anchor. [ Samuel Smiles ]

The gloomy recess of an ecclesiastical library is like a harbor, into which a far-travelling curiosity has sailed with its freight, and cast anchor; the ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise; odors of distant countries and times steal from the red leaves the swelling ridges of vellum, and the titles in tarnished gold. [ R. A. Willmott ]