Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.

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

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

I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.

Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.

England expects that every man will do his duty.

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable.

Don't make me sit through reality.

Close your eyes. Grab a hand. And jump! Your destiny is waiting for you at the bottom!

I love to watch cities wake up, and Paris wakes up more abruptly, more startlingly, than any place I know.

I didn't want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.

But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.

To deny this is to deny our own heritage, our own spirit, and our own souls.

You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.

No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas.