Nothing exciting ever happens to me.
...without a Respectable Navy, Alas America!
I have not yet begun to fight!
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.
Where men of fine feeling are concerned there is seldom misunderstanding.
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.