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.

The life of a sailor is very unhealthy.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

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

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

Seamen are the nearest to death and the furthest from God.

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.

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

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

The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.

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.

The sea hath fish for every man.