The author says that when an angry impulse is not immediately expressed, it turns to melancholy.

The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.

Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love...

The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew.

What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?""Everything, since he has a command and I have not.

The newly-minted captain admits the irony between the gold on his shoulders and the lack of gold in his pockets.

Every time I see you I fall in love all over again.

I don't know much about gods, but I think the river is a strong, brown god

No teas come, only memories. Memories and regrets.

Most people in the world are Christ lovers. And then there are Christ haters. But all of them are fixated on Christ, and he perpetuates for ever.

If a wolf attacks his sheep, the shepard kills the wolf, but he eats the sheep when he's hungry.

Hell yes! Gentle birth’s got to be good for something!

I'm not the man to baulk at a low smell, I'm not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you think? It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.

I don't talk much to offensive linemen in general.

One of the good things about getting older is you find you're more interesting than most of the people you meet.

Why is that when people become ill and have something wrong with any of their organs, they get sympathy from other people - except when that organ is their brain?