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

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

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

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

It is He who has subdued the ocean so that you may eat of its fresh fish and bring up from its depth ornaments to wear. Behold the ships plowing their course through it. All this, that you may seek His bounty and render thanks.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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