Thank God I have done my duty. Drink, drink. Fan, fan. Rub, rub. Kiss me, Hardy.

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

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.

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.

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

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.