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

Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.

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

But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.

The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.

If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.

I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.