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.

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.

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

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

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.

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

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