If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.

Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.

No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.

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.

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

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

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