“If anyone says that the best life of all is to sail the sea, and then adds that I must not sail upon a sea where shipwrecks are a common occurrence and there are often sudden storms that sweep the helmsman in an adverse direction, I conclude that this man, although he lauds navigation, really forbids me to launch my ship.”

“I know that these mental disturbances of mine are not dangerous and give no promise of a storm; to express what I complain of in apt metaphor, I am distressed, not by a tempest, but by sea-sickness. ”

“Beyond all things is the sea”

“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”

“The best ideas are common property”

“The anchor heaves, the ship swings freeThe sails swell full. To sea, to sea!”

“On a ship that's made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you.)”