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.

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.

It is my turn now; and if I come back, it is yours.

Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean.

Whoever gains the palm by merit, let him hold it.

Our Country will, I believe, sooner forgive an Officer for attacking his Enemy than for letting it alone.