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.

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.

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

Ashore it’s wine, women, and song; aboard it’s rum, bum, and concertina.

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

I never even saw the use of the sea. Many a sad heart has it caused, and many a sick stomach has it occasioned! The boldest sailor climbs on board with a heavy soul and leaps on land with a light spirit.

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.

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.

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

A fair complexion is unbecoming to a sailor: he ought to be swarthy from the waters of the sea and the rays of the sun.

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