My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself.

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.

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

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

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

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