He who will not risk cannot win.

I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike!

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.

Nothing exciting ever happens to me.

It is by no means enough that an officer should be capable. . . . He should be as well a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor. . . . No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention, even if the reward be only one word of approval. Conversely, he should not be blind to a single fault in any subordinate.