In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing.

Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.

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

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

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

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.

Hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.