I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor. – Horatio Nelson
Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner its off the better. – 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
Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone. – Horatio Nelson
Take particular care of your books…. When you lend a book to any one, make a memorandum of it before it leaves your house, and when it is returned cancel the entry. Every Passover and Tabernacles call in all your books that are out on loan. – Judah Ibn Tibbon, advice to son, quoted by Israel Abrahams, Jewish Life in the M