Should I have the good fortune to fall in with him again, I'll make a lord of him.
Source: On learning that Richard Pearson, the British captain that he had defeated in his famous battle at sea, was made a knight; in Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes, by Clifton Fadiman, 1985.
-- John Paul Jones, (Jul 6 1747-1792), US naval officer; He is considered the founder of the American Navy.