Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

I cannot command winds and weather.

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

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

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

Our Country will, I believe, sooner forgive an Officer for attacking his Enemy than for letting it alone.

England expects every man to do his duty