Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!

It is plain there is not in nature a point of stability to be found; everything either ascends or declines; when wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home; and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition.

In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing.

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.

It is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.

If any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou hast to spare; if he press thee further, he is not thy friend at all, for friendship rather chooseth harm to itself than offereth it. If thou be bound for a stranger, thou art a fool; if for a merchant, thou puttest thy estate to learn to swim.

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.