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

The defeat of the combined French and Spanish fleets lifted the very real threat of an invasion of Britain and it was greeted by the nation with huge relief,

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

Westminster Abbey, or Victory.

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.

indomitable in victory, insufferable in defeat.