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

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

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

Of all objects that I have ever seen, there is none which affects my imagination so much as the sea or ocean. A troubled ocean, to a man who sails upon it, is, I think, the biggest object that he can see in motion, and consequently gives his imagination one of the highest kinds of pleasure that can arise from greatness.

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

And to our age’s drowsy blood / Still shouts the inspiring sea.

The sea yields action to the body, meditation to the mind, the world to the world, all parts thereof to each part, by this art of arts—navigation.

What will not attract a man’s stare at sea?—a gull, a turtle, a flying fish!

The sole business of a seaman onshore who has to go to sea again is to take as much pleasure as he can.

Never trust her at any time when the calm sea shows her false alluring smile.

Take back your golden fiddles, and we’ll beat to open sea.

He who commands the sea has command of everything.

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.