Firstly, you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own respecting their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman, as you do the devil.

Frigates are the eyes of a fleet.

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.

Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.

Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight

A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.