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.

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

I’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.

Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It’s the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

Seafarers go to sleep in the evening not knowing whether they will find themselves at the bottom of the sea the next morning.

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

He who travels by sea is nothing but a worm on a piece of wood, a trifle in the midst of a powerful creation. The waters play about with him at will, and no one but God can help him.

Of all objects that I have ever seen, there is none which affects my imagination so much as the sea or ocean. A troubled ocean, to a man who sails upon it, is, I think, the biggest object that he can see in motion, and consequently gives his imagination one of the highest kinds of pleasure that can arise from greatness.

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.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

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

The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.

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