In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.
Desperate affairs require desperate measures.
My love is founded on esteem, the only foundation that can make the passion last.
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.
First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.
My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.