In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal; by the comparison and application of other mens fore-passed miseries with our own like errours and ill-deservings.

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

Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.

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

Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.

Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth.

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.