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.

The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

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

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.

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