Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.

Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.

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.

I believe that all roads lead to the same place - and that is wherever all roads lead to.

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.