I am a Norfolk man and Glory in being so.

A ship's a fool to fight a fort.

I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.

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.

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

Had we taken ten sails, and let the eleventh to escape, being able to get at her, I could never have called it well done.

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.