He who commands the sea has command of everything.

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

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.

All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full.

The sea hath no king but God alone.

The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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