Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean.
Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight
It is my turn now; and if I come back, it is yours.
First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.
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.
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.