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

To do nothing was disgraceful; therefore I made use of my understanding.

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.

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

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

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

My love is founded on esteem, the only foundation that can make the passion last.