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 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.

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

The sea hath fish for every man.

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

He who commands the sea has command of everything.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

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

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

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.

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.

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

The sole business of a seaman onshore who has to go to sea again is to take as much pleasure as he can.