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.

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.

What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be, Where we are drest for this short Comedy.

Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.

The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.

It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.