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

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.

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.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole 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.

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

As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden.

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.

Never trust her at any time when the calm sea shows her false alluring smile.

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

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.

The life of a sailor is very unhealthy.