The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness.

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

It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.

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

What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be, Where we are drest for this short Comedy.

Youth is the opportunity to do something and to be somebody.

Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.