All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.

Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

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.

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

There never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions are sober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath found by an irresistible necessity one true God and everlasting being.

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