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

Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.

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

If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love.

But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.

The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.

But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.

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

It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.

Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.

Let’s forget the past and keep in mind the future, but enjoy the present moment.

Misery and poverty of a nation does not depend on how fertile their land is but the fertility of their thoughts.

I have had my share with boys, longings are for men heron.

My wife is my favorite actress. Without question. I have seen more jaws drop in little theaters when people see my wife up on that stage than you can imagine.

Margo's beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection--uncracked and uncrackable.

You can't hear God speak to someone else, you can hear him only when you are being addressed.

Just because my bank account hasn't swelled astronomically I don't consider myself any less of a success.

I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.

I don't know if I was funny as a child, though I always thought my parents really enjoyed listening to me sing.