The sea hath no king but God alone.

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

The sea yields action to the body, meditation to the mind, the world to the world, all parts thereof to each part, by this art of arts—navigation.

The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet.

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.

You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars.

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

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

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.

Ashore it’s wine, women, and song; aboard it’s rum, bum, and concertina.

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.