Youth is the opportunity to do something and to be somebody.

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness.

It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.

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.

He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for who so laboreth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.

I shall never be persuaded that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lantern of Aristotle's brain.

Our shipping and sea service is our best and safest defence as being the only fortification and rampart of England.