Close With A Frenchman, But Out-maneuver A

Had We Taken Ten Sails, And Let The Eleventh To Escape, Being Able To Get At Her, I Could Never Have Called It Well Done.

I Am Ill Every Time It Blows Hard, And Nothing But My Enthusiastic Love For The Profession Keeps Me One Hour At Sea.

Time Is Everything; Five Minutes Make The Difference Between Victory And Defeat.

No Captain Can Do Very Wrong If He Places His Ship Alongside That Of The Enemy.

If I Had Been Censured Every Time I Have Run My Ship, Or Fleets Under My Command, Into Great Danger, I Should Have Long Ago Been Out Of The Service And Never In The House Of Peers.