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

It is He who has subdued the ocean so that you may eat of its fresh fish and bring up from its depth ornaments to wear. Behold the ships plowing their course through it. All this, that you may seek His bounty and render thanks.

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.

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.

The sea hath fish for every man.

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

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!

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

The life of a sailor is very unhealthy.

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 sea hath no king but God alone.