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.

Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.

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

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.

God is absolutely good; and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.