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.

Thank God I have done my duty.

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

When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It was new - it was singular - it was simple!'.

I cannot command winds and weather.

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.

In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.