Samuel Johnson Quotes about Sailing

A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company
In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 348 (16 March 1759).
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 16 Mar. 1759)