He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
England expects that every man will do his duty.
I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace and make a bonfire of them.
For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.
The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
He who awaits much can expect little.
He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.