Thursday, August 17, 2006
Posted by Tara Koellhoffer
“I have had good experience and trial of this world: I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign; what to have good neighbors, and sometime meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded, and instead of gratefulness, courses of purpose to be cross.”
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Posted by Tara Koellhoffer
“No path is more direct, either to gain good fortune or to procure my grace, than diligently, in your studies which you have begun, to stick to your work; and that you do this, I pray and beseech you all.”
Posted by Tara Koellhoffer
“[F]or the course of justice, I protest that I never knew difference of persons–that I never set one before another but upon just cause, neither have preferred any to office or some other place or ruling for the preferrer’s sake, but that I knew or was made to believe he was worthy and fit for [...]
Posted by Tara Koellhoffer
“The sea, as well as the air, is a free and common thing to all; and a particular nation cannot pretend to have the right to the exclusion of all others, without violating the rights of nature and public usage.”
Posted by Tara Koellhoffer
“[S]ince the creation of the world, we see that just as the days and months increase and multiply, so similarly, little by little, by succession of time the mind of man is more ingenious and inventive, more adorned and polished, than it formerly was.”
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Posted by Tara Koellhoffer
“No prince’s revenues be so great that they are able to satisfy the insatiable cupidity of men.”
Wednesday, August 9, 2006
Posted by Tara Koellhoffer
“. . . What a family is without a steward, a ship without a pilot, a flock without a shepherd, a body without a head, the same, I think, is a kingdom without the health and safety of a good monarch.”
Posted by Tara Koellhoffer
“Finally, be of one mind, for you know that unity is the stronger, disunity the weaker and quick to fall into ruin.”
Posted by Tara Koellhoffer
“And whereas you offer to send me any traitor of mine residing in your land, I shall not fail but expect th’accomplishment of the same in case any such shall be. . . .”
Posted by Tara Koellhoffer
“[I]f you compare the time that is run on and the excessive charges that is [are] spent with the effects of anything wrought by this voyage . . . yet you must needs think that we have the eyes of foreign princes upon our actions and have the hearts of the people to comfort and [...]