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

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

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

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.

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.

The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.

The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.

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

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.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

The sea hath no king but God alone.

He that commands the sea is at great liberty and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.