Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
Horatio Nelson

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

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

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.
Horatio Nelson

I cannot command winds and weather.
Horatio Nelson

Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding 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 hate the devil.
Horatio Nelson

If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.
Horatio Nelson

I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!
Horatio Nelson