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

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.

In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.

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

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

The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle; but he dreads disgrace yet more.

A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.