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

Take back your golden fiddles, and we’ll beat to open 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.

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.

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

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

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

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.

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

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

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 breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

The sea hath no king but God alone.