So long as a man rides his hobby-horse peaceably and quietly along the King’s highway…pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it? (The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne)
I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by (Sea-Fever by John Masefield)