To all who follow the hard and honorable profession of the sea, to the after-guard and forecastle alike,

I love this house. I thought I must stay here the moment I saw it.

I felt that way about a ship once, my first command.

I don't really know.

I just wanted to inform you all reluctantly, that...

We are told to remember the idea and not the man.

Laius, proud father, speak.