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.

I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.

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.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back whence we came.

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

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

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.

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

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.

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.

The sea hath fish for every man.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.