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.

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

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.

I cannot command winds and weather.

Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.

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