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

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.

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

Our shipping and sea service is our best and safest defence as being the only fortification and rampart of England.

Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.

Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.