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.

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

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.

I am a Norfolk man and Glory in being so.

Had we taken ten sails, and let the eleventh to escape, being able to get at her, I could never have called it well done.

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

The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle; but he dreads disgrace yet more.