I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

There can be no place for self entirely

I will dine nowhere without your consent although with my present feelings I might be trusted with fifty virgins naked in a dark room.

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.

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

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.