The sea hath no king but God alone.

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.

Why is a ship under sail more poetical than a hog in a high wind? The hog is all nature, the ship is all art.

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

Take back your golden fiddles, and we’ll beat to open sea.

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.

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.

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

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

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

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.

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.