The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

He who commands the sea has command of everything.

I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.

He that commands the sea is at great liberty and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.

The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.

But look, our seas are what we make of them, full of fish or not, opaque or transparent, red or black, high or smooth, narrow or bankless—and we are ourselves sea, sand, coral, seaweed, beaches, tides, swimmers, children, waves.

The sea receives us in a proper way only when we are without clothes.

Without a decisive naval force, we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.

He who travels by sea is nothing but a worm on a piece of wood, a trifle in the midst of a powerful creation. The waters play about with him at will, and no one but God can help him.

The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.

You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars.

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

Being thus arrived in good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stale earth, their proper element.