It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.
Walter RaleighO eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hath cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet!
Walter RaleighIf thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.
Walter RaleighWhosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth.
Walter Raleigh