The sea hath fish for every man.

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

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

Seafarers go to sleep in the evening not knowing whether they will find themselves at the bottom of the sea the next morning.

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

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.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

Of all objects that I have ever seen, there is none which affects my imagination so much as the sea or ocean. A troubled ocean, to a man who sails upon it, is, I think, the biggest object that he can see in motion, and consequently gives his imagination one of the highest kinds of pleasure that can arise from greatness.

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.

The sea receives us in a proper way only when we are without clothes.

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

I’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.

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.