An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.

Funny how the new things are the old things.

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins, when all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins.

However the world pretends to divide itself, there are only two divisions in the world today - human beings and Germans.

Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any fool can muddle; but it takes something more of a man to save and the more he saves the more of a man he makes of himself. Waste and extravagance unsettle a man's mind for every crisis; thrift, which means some form of self-restraint, steadies it.

He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing.

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.