A ship's a fool to fight a fort.

I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.

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

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.

Frigates are the eyes of a fleet.

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