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!'.

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

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

I will dine nowhere without your consent although with my present feelings I might be trusted with fifty virgins naked in a dark room.

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

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!'.

A ship's a fool to fight a fort.