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

Why is a ship under sail more poetical than a hog in a high wind? The hog is all nature, the ship is all art.

We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

I’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.

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

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back whence we came.

Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

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

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

The life of a sailor is very unhealthy.

Tomorrow we take to the mighty sea.