From Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini

"There remained the sea, which is free to all, and particularly alluring to those who feel themselves at war with humanity."

"Fata viam invenerunt"

"The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal."

"He enjoyed also a reputation of another sort.  There was about his gaudy, swaggering raffishness something that the women found singularly alluring.  That he should boast openly of his bonnes fortunes did not seem strange to Captain Blood; what he might have found strange was that there appeared to be some measure of justification for these boasts."

"...[while] Captain Blood languished in his lady's smile within the cabin..."

"He might have said more but that Levasseur struck him across the mouth.  Levasseur, you see, cared as little as another to hear the truth about himself."

"Lord Julian was sententious, as I gather that he often was.  "Life can be infernally complex," he sighed."

"There was a great historian lost in Wolverstone.  He had the right imagination that knows just how far it is safe to stray from the truth and just how far to colour it so as to change its shape for his own purposes."

When Blood gives up Ms Bishop to Lord Julian
Lord Julian: "I wonder whether you are right," said his lordship, "and whether you are not the better man."
Blood: "Where she is concerned see that you make sure that I am right."