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

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

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.

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

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

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 power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.

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

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.

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

The sea hath no king but God alone.

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.