Why there you are, Stephen,' cried Jack. 'You are come home, I find.' That is true,' said Stephen with an affectionate look: he prized statements of this kind in Jack.

Why, sir," said he, looking about him, "what splendour I see: gold lace, breeches, cocked hats. Allow me to recommend a sandwich. And would you be contemplating an attack, at all?" "It had crossed my mind, I must admit," said Jack. "Indeed, I may go so far as to say, that I am afraid a conflict is now virtually inevitable. Did you notice we have cleared for action?

After all a book can be represented as a conversation with one’s demon.

The sensation of falling into the past is not unlike that of coming home for the holidays.

The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.

I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it.

We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured.