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.

Frigates are the eyes of a fleet.

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.

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

Whoever gains the palm by merit, let him hold it.

Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean.