I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.

But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.

Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!

Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.

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

It is plain there is not in nature a point of stability to be found; everything either ascends or declines; when wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home; and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition.