He Disliked Emotion, Not Because

The Sea Has Formed The English Character And The Essential England Is To Be Found In Those Who Follow It. From Blue Waters They Have Learned Mercifulness, And They Have Also Learned - In The Grimmest Of Schools - Precision And Resolution. The Sea Endures No Makeshifts. If A Thing Is Not Exactly Right It Will Be Vastly Wrong.

The Vows We Take In The Holy Place Bind Us Till We Are Purged Of Them At Inanda's Kraal. Till Then No Blood Must Be Shed And No Flesh Eaten. It Was The Fashion Of Our Forefathers.

There May Be Peace Without Joy, And Joy Without Peace, But The Two Combined Make Happiness.

Pessimism Is The One Ism Which Kills The Soul.

You May Hear People Say That Submarines Have Done Away With The Battleship, And That Aircraft Have Annulled The Mastery Of The Sea. That Is What Our Pessimists Say. But Do You Imagine That The Clumsy Submarine Or The Fragile Aeroplane Is Really The Last Word Of Science?