Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

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

England expects every man to do his duty

Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

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

I am a Norfolk man and Glory in being so.