You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog,-the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect,-the creature of a season.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

We mortals cross the ocean of this world Each in his average cabin of a life; The bests not big, the worst yields elbowroom.

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

Some of us, regarding the ocean with understanding and affection, have seen it looking old, as if the immemorial ages had been stirred up from the undisturbed bottom of ooze. For it is a gale of wind that makes the sea look old.

The ocean doesn't care about you. It makes your boat feel tiny. The oceans are great promoters of religion, or at least of humility-but not in everyone.

Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.

Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.

Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes.