O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hath cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet!

The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.

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

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

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

To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die.

... but the longest day hath its evening.