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

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

Thank God I have done my duty.

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.

Close with a Frenchman, but out-maneuver a Russian.

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.