Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.
When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.
The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it.
But who in war will not have his laugh amid the skulls?