He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'

The Navy is very old and very wise.

When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave Them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us, and delivered us, bound, to our foe, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."

She is intensely human, and lives to look upon life.

When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.

It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.