There can be no place for self entirely

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.

Close with a Frenchman, but out-maneuver a Russian.

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

The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.

I cannot command winds and weather.

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