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

To do nothing was disgraceful; therefore I made use of my understanding.

Hardy, I do believe they have done it at last... my backbone is shot through.

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

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.

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.

Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.