"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."

"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."

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

"Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better."

"I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship."

"Trust me, you have to fight. When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it."

"There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope."

"There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality."