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

Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.

In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal; by the comparison and application of other mens fore-passed miseries with our own like errours and ill-deservings.

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.

Trust few men; above all, keep your follies to yourself.

Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.

Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.