I cannot command winds and weather.
Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.
Whoever gains the palm by merit, let him hold it.
Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.
I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.
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.