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.

There can be no place for self entirely

I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.

I cannot command winds and weather.

Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.

I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.

Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.