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.

Frigates are the eyes of a fleet.

I have a right to be blind sometimes.

Close with a Frenchman, but out-maneuver a Russian.

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

I am of the opinion that the boldest measures are the safest.