God, I swear I’ve never seen a more nervous bunch of people. Like a bunch of rats in a science lab.

— Feather Stone

Thus was this expedition finished...after having, by its event, strongly evinced this important truth; that though prudence, intrepidity and perseverance united are not exempted from the blows of adverse fortune, yet in a long series of transactions they usually rise superior to its power, and in the end rarely fail of proving successful. Voyage Around The World, 1751

— George Anson