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.

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

I am a Norfolk man and Glory in being so.

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

There can be no place for self entirely

The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.

It is my turn now; and if I come back, it is yours.