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

There can be no place for self entirely

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

Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.

I cannot command winds and weather.

Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.

Firstly, you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own respecting their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman, as you do the devil.