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.

Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean.

Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.

Whoever gains the palm by merit, let him hold it.

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

England expects every man to do his duty

Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.