I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.

The sea hath no king but God alone.

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

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back whence we came.

What will not attract a man’s stare at sea?—a gull, a turtle, a flying fish!

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.

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

He who commands the sea has command of everything.

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

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

All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full.

The sea hath fish for every man.

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