Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.

I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!

Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean.

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle; but he dreads disgrace yet more.

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.