I cannot command winds and weather.

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

There can be no place for self entirely

It is my turn now; and if I come back, it is yours.

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.

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.

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