It is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.

Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs.

The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.

There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters, than thy inferiors.

It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.

In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing.