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.

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

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

There can be no place for self entirely

I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.