What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

My love is founded on esteem, the only foundation that can make the passion last.

Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.

I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.

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

The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.

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