Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.

A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.

My love is founded on esteem, the only foundation that can make the passion last.

Had we taken ten sails, and let the eleventh to escape, being able to get at her, I could never have called it well done.

You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself.

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.