I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.
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.
No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.
Youth is the opportunity to do something and to be somebody.
Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.
Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with the title of his own image and similitude.