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.

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

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

I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.

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

An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake.