No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese.

That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do.

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

Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.

For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it.

For very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs of the contrary...

Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.