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 wonderful sea charmed me from the first.

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

Why is a ship under sail more poetical than a hog in a high wind? The hog is all nature, the ship is all art.

He who commands the sea has command of everything.

Tomorrow we take to the mighty sea.

Seamen are the nearest to death and the furthest from God.

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

The sea hath fish for every man.

The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet.

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.

The life of a sailor is very unhealthy.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.