His extreme lawfulness made him righteous, but did it make him merciful?

He ran his ship a bit more iron-handedly than other pirate captains did. The articles he made his crew sign—which included the exact percentage each man would receive of the treasure captured—demanded stricter rules of decorum and propriety than normally seen among pirate crews.

All cathedrals, pontificalities, brass and stone, and outer arrangement never so lasting, are brief in comparison to an unfathomable heartsong like this : one feels as if it might survive, still of importance to men, when these had all sunk into new irrecognisable combinations, and had ceased individually to be.

[newspaper headline shown at the beginning of the movie] Why NY ♥'s Spidey How this mysterious masked man became New York's most eligible bachelor.