"I never had any ambition other than to go to sea."

"Inspections should be taken seriously and should be by no means cursory."

"I can look back to the nights on a passenger ship when one wax candle afforded all the illumination between two cabin…"

"Many people imagine the lot of a captain and his officers on a modern liner is one round of pleasure and good food. W…"

"There's a proverb that you can't teach old dogs new tricks. But all I can say is that any senior man who is incapable…"

"A busy life and a good one. I can honestly say I have enjoyed every hour of my long seafaring experience. If I could …"

"Miles of cornfields, and ballet in the evening."

"The reader must not expect in this work merely the private uninteresting history of a single town. He may expect what…"

"The backward condition of Portugal is largely attributable to its lack of instruction, and in view of the want of int…"

"To say that there was, and that there always remained, a great gulf between the ecclesiastical ideal of Christian kni…"