What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

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.

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

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

Frigates are the eyes of a fleet.

Thank God I have done my duty. Drink, drink. Fan, fan. Rub, rub. Kiss me, Hardy.

In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable.