Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.
Walter RaleighMen endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.
Walter RaleighA man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.
Walter RaleighAll, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.
Walter Raleigh