Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.

England expects that every man will do his duty.

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.

Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.

If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.

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