It Is My Turn Now; And If

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.

Duty Is The Great Business Of A Sea Officer; All Private Considerations Must Give Way To It, However Painful It May Be.

I Am Ill Every Time It Blows Hard, And Nothing But My Enthusiastic Love For The Profession Keeps Me One Hour At Sea.

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.

A Fleet Of British Ships At War Are The Best Negotiators.