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

I dare not think that any supercelestial heaven, or whatsoever else ... was increate and eternal. And as for the place of God before the world created, the finite wisdom of mortal men hath no perception of it; neither can it limit the seat of infinite power, no more than infinite power itself can be limited; for his place is in himself, whom no magnitude else can contain.

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.

All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be, Where we are drest for this short Comedy.

The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war.