The life of a sailor is very unhealthy.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Tomorrow we take to the mighty sea.

The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.

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.