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

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

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

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.

What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.

They learned no compassion from their own anguish. Thus their suffering was wasted.

Screw you, I don't hate you I just don't find any good reason to like you.

Power needs plots because plots are secret until they unfold and the most gratifying kind of power is holding onto an explosive secret.

I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme From that time unto this season I received nor rhyme nor reason.

We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.

Was it me that Botticelli imagined?

Longing on a large scale makes history.

Australia and New Zealand are now threatened by the might of the Imperial Japanese forces, and both of them should know that any resistance is futile.

If you choose the lesser of two evils, you are still choosing evil.