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 have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.

Frigates are the eyes of a fleet.

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.