You do not mean there is danger of peace?, cried Jack.
Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
I should send my bees ashore for you, upon my sacred honour.
Well, I will wear the bees, like Damon and Pythagoras – ho, a mere sixty thousand bees in the cabin don't signify, much.
The author says that when an angry impulse is not immediately expressed, it turns to melancholy.
Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer.
He has written about equality, the perfectibility of human nature, and the essential goodness of mankind for many years -- he judges others by himself, poor soul.
Stephen Maturin sipped his scalding coffee, the right Mocha berry, brought back from Arabia Felix in the pilgrim dhows, and considered. He was naturally a reserved and even a secretive man: his illegi...
How much better a man feels when he is mixed with halibut and leg of mutton and roebuck
The newly-minted captain admits the irony between the gold on his shoulders and the lack of gold in his pockets.
The more a victory cost, the more it was esteemed.
The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew.
Stephen's heart was big to bursting with the violence of his grief, yet even as he looked distractedly from side to side his mind told him that there was something amiss, the more so as the cheering h...
Injustice is a rule of the service, as you know very well; and since you have to have a good deal of undeserved abuse, you might just as well have it from your friends.
Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.
Jack, you've debauched my sloth.
Pochi uccelli Stephen preferiva ai succiacapre, ma non era stato il loro canto a farlo scendere dal letto. Rimase fermo, appoggiato alla ringhiera, e poco dopo Jack Aubrey, in un padiglione presso il...
I do not like to sound discontented neither,' said Pullings, 'nor to crab any ship I belong to; but between you and me, Doctor, between you and me, she is more what we call a floating coffin than a sh...
Take it easy, Teague,'said another. But Peter would not take it easy: he hesitated, trying to quell the wild indignation; but he failed; it possessed him, and with a furious shriek he hurled himself u...
«Hai il dono di comparire proprio quando la mia mente è piena del tuo nome e perfino della tua immagine. Ma, Stephen, mio caro, sei così pallido e magro! Ti danno da mangiare? Sei stato malato? Sei in...