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.

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

Tomorrow we take to the mighty sea.

The sea hath no king but God alone.

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.

Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.

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

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

The sea hath fish for every man.

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

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

The sole business of a seaman onshore who has to go to sea again is to take as much pleasure as he can.

The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.