I am a Norfolk man and Glory in being so.

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

Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.

I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.

Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.

England expects that every man will do his duty.

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

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

A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.

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

In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable.

What was civilization ever, really, but the attempt by man to talk himself into being good?

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted when you find it taken for granted you are unnerved.

Greece gave democracy to the rest of the world.

A good man therefore is a standing lesson to us all.

I do not paint nature. I am nature.

They've taken the foot off Johnny Grubb. Uh, they've taken the shoe off Johnny Grubb.

You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do.

For some miracles can only occur in the dark.

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.

Every sensible banker understands that Greece should not have received any more money: a bankrupt state that can never be expected to repay loans is not a good debtor.