Land was created to provide a place for steamers to visit.

Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.

Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship's wake.

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

The happiest hour a sailor sees Is when he's down At an inland town, With his Nancy on his knees, yo ho! And his arm around her waist!

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.

A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor.

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

In order to realize the worth of the anchor, we need to feel the stress of the storm.