"Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon."
"The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle; but he dreads disgrace yet more."
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Source: Attributed to Locker's Greenwich Gallery article Torrington in Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan The Life of Nelson, Volume 2: The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain (p. 52), 1897.
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