Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

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

You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars.

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

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

The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening 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.

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

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.

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

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

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.