"When you beat my pitch, young gentlemen, I'll try again."

"I am embarked on a wide ocean, boundless in its prospect, and in which, perhaps, no safe harbor is to be found."

"Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the too frequent changes of officers."

"I shall rely therefore on that Providence which has hitherto preserved us, and shall feel no dismay at any dangers."

"I have always given it as my opinion that no terms should be made with a people who are so lost to every sense of honor and principle as to be capable of such barbarity."