Never trust her at any time when the calm sea shows her false alluring smile.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

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

I never even saw the use of the sea. Many a sad heart has it caused, and many a sick stomach has it occasioned! The boldest sailor climbs on board with a heavy soul and leaps on land with a light spirit.

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

A fair complexion is unbecoming to a sailor: he ought to be swarthy from the waters of the sea and the rays of the sun.

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.

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

Why is a ship under sail more poetical than a hog in a high wind? The hog is all nature, the ship is all art.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole 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.

Tomorrow we take to the mighty sea.

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