I have a right to be blind sometimes.

The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle; but he dreads disgrace yet more.

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

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

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

I have a right to be blind sometimes.

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.