(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.

Like the destroyer, the submarine has created its own type of officer and man with language and traditions apart from the rest of the service, and yet at the heart unchangingly of the Service

There is no harm in a man's cub.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?