For very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs of the contrary...

Although wealth may not bring happiness, the immediate prospect of it provides a wonderfully close imitation.

Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.

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

Why there you are, Stephen,' cried Jack. 'You are come home, I find.' That is true,' said Stephen with an affectionate look: he prized statements of this kind in Jack.

... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room

There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me.

We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth

Compulsion is the death of friendship.

We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured.

Jack, you've debauched my sloth.

If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself.

Is a dream the ultimate freedom, or the ultimate prison?

Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.

My girlfriend wants an open relationship. I said no way. What kind of man would I be if I had to tell my friends I date you?

Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.

Every family has a story, and I love that those stories are etched in sand rather than granite. That way we can change them. We can bury the lies and embrace the truth. And we can move forward.

Hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love.

Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

We are full of bread and gas, getting fat on the outside while inside we grow thin

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.