Ashore it’s wine, women, and song; aboard it’s rum, bum, and concertina.

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

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.

Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide 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 bathing was so delightful this morning, and Molly so pressing with me to enjoy myself, that I believe I stayed in rather too long, as since the middle of the day I have felt unreasonably tired. I shall be more careful another time, and shall not bathe tomorrow as I had before intended.

In all the ancient states and empires, those who had the shipping, had the wealth.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden.

He who commands the sea has command of everything.

Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea. It is down there that the sea folk live.

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.