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

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

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

Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.

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.

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

Seamen are the nearest to death and the furthest from God.

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.

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

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back whence we came.

The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.

The sea hath fish for every man.

Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea. It is down there that the sea folk live.