Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.

Better it were not to live than to live a coward.

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.

A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy; he will be silent on his more personal interests, or, if he must speak, will veil them under conventional forms.

The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.

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