The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm’s way.

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

The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.

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.

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

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

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 power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

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

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

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.