The easiest way of life is the best.

And the visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.

Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.

Let us only hate hatred; and once give love a play, we will fall in love with a unicorn.

Though essaying but a sportive sail, I was driven from my course by a blast re sistless; and ill-provided, young, and bowed by the brunt of things before my prime, still fly before the gale. ... If after all these fearful fainting trances, the verdict be, the golden haven was not gained; yet in bold quest thereof, better to sink in boundless deeps than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do.

The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin.

He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.