Ashore it’s wine, women, and song; aboard it’s rum, bum, and concertina.

Being thus arrived in good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stale earth, their proper element.

Tomorrow we take to the mighty sea.

The sole business of a seaman onshore who has to go to sea again is to take as much pleasure as he can.

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.

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

He that commands the sea is at great liberty and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.

We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!

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

The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.

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

He who commands the sea has command of everything.

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.