I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!

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.

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

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

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.

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

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