Rogues, would you live forever?

How happy is the sailor’s life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home.

What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.

Making the world safe for hypocrisy.

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.