The drafts from the regiments at Ticonderoga are a miserable set;…

We have but very indifferent men in general. Great part of those who ship for seamen know very little of the matter.

What do you think would be my fate if my misguided countrymen were to take me prisoner?

We have a wretched motley crew, in the fleet; the marines the refuse of every regiment, and the seamen, few of them, ever wet with salt water.

In this country … men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

The spider-men came first, and presented her Majesty with a table full of mathematical points, lines and figures of all sorts of squares, circles, triangles, and the like; which the Empress, notwithstanding that she had a very ready wit, …

I am the greatest landowner in the world.