Walter Raleigh
Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.Collection: Plant
It is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.Collection: Kings
It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest.Collection: Wise
No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.Collection: Women
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.Collection: Dog
'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.Collection: Medicine
He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for who so laboreth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.Collection: Integrity
It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.Collection: Running
This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.Collection: Death
A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.Collection: Men
There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters, than thy inferiors.Collection: Friendship