A ship's a fool to fight a fort.
In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable.
Desperate affairs require desperate measures.
Firstly, you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own respecting their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman, as you do the devil.
In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.
Close with a Frenchman, but out-maneuver a Russian.