My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

Thank God I have done my duty.

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.

I will dine nowhere without your consent although with my present feelings I might be trusted with fifty virgins naked in a dark room.

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.

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