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

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

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

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

In all the ancient states and empires, those who had the shipping, had the wealth.

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.

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!

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

The life of a sailor is very unhealthy.

The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet.

The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening 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.