Walter Raleigh

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

"The world itself is but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution."

"All histories do shew, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so t…"

"So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lies."

"He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for whoso laboureth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessari…"

"Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons that are enemies to that enterprise, doth frame a state of short persev…"

"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 hast cast out of the world and d…"

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