Sailing quotations, with their sources.

In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it.

Water Rat · The Wind in the Willows

O youth! The strength of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it!

Marlow · Youth: A Narrative

The acute pain of solitude experienced at first never returned. I had penetrated a mystery, and, by the way, I had sailed through a fog.

Joshua Slocum · Sailing Alone Around the World

There is a witchery in the sea, its songs and stories, and in the mere sight of a ship, and the sailor's dress, especially to a young mind, which has done more to man navies, and fill merchantmen, than all the press-gangs of Europe.

Richard Henry Dana Jr. · Two Years Before the Mast