For as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination or by confederacy with others that are in the same danger with himself

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

Covenants without swords are but words.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

From whence it happens, that they which trust to books, do as they that cast up many little sums into a greater, without considering whether those little sums were rightly cast up or not; and at last finding the error visible, and not mistrusting their first grounds, know not which way to clear themselves; but spend time in fluttering over their books, as birds that entering by the chimney, and finding themselves enclosed in a chamber, flutter at the false light of a glass window, for want of wit to consider which way they came in.

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.