I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.
I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
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.
Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.
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.
