The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm’s way.

The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet.

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.

Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!

A fair complexion is unbecoming to a sailor: he ought to be swarthy from the waters of the sea and the rays of the sun.

Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It’s the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

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

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.

Ocean. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man—who has no gills.

Tomorrow we take to the mighty sea.

Seamen are the nearest to death and the furthest from God.