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.

The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war.

The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.

I dare not think that any supercelestial heaven, or whatsoever else ... was increate and eternal. And as for the place of God before the world created, the finite wisdom of mortal men hath no perception of it; neither can it limit the seat of infinite power, no more than infinite power itself can be limited; for his place is in himself, whom no magnitude else can contain.

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

The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.

Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.