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.

I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.

A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.

Our Country will, I believe, sooner forgive an Officer for attacking his Enemy than for letting it alone.

A ship's a fool to fight a fort.

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.