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

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

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

A ship's a fool to fight a fort.

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.

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

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.