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

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

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

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.

Ocean. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man—who has no gills.

And to our age’s drowsy blood / Still shouts the inspiring sea.

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.

The sea hath fish for every man.

The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

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

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.

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.