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

The sea hath fish for every man.

I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It’s the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

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.

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

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