"Those gobblers [the French]?- I detest them."

"Success, I trust — indeed have little doubt — will crown our zealous and well-meant endeavours: if not, our Country w…"

"The lives of all are in the hands of Him who knows best whether to preserve it or no, and to His will do I resign mys…"

"I cannot, if I am in the field for glory, be kept out of sight. Probably my services may be forgotten by the great, b…"

"I had rather suffer death than alarm Mrs. Freemantle, by letting her see me in this state, when I can give her no tid…"

"Let me alone, I have yet my legs left, and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and get his instruments. I know I …"

"First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can."

"Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminster Abbey."

"The Neapolitan officers did not lose much honour, for God knows they had not much to lose - but they lost all they had."

"Fear? I never saw fear. What is it? It never came near me."