Traveling is a fool's paradise... I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there besides me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability. Abby Sunderland
No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Why does pouring oil on the sea make it clear and calm? Is it for that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves? Plutarch
Ah, County Guy, the hour is nigh, The sun has left the lea. The orange flower perfumes the bower, The breeze is on the sea. Walter Scott
One penny is better on land than ten on the sea. Danish Proverb