Walter Raleigh

A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy; he…

— Walter Raleigh

A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to…

— Walter Raleigh

The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.

— Walter Raleigh

There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find…

— Walter Raleigh

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

— Walter Raleigh

Our souls, piercing through the impurity of flesh, behold the highest heaven, and thence bring knowledge to contemplate the ever-during, glory and…

— Walter Raleigh

Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in…

— Walter Raleigh

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

— Walter Raleigh

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

— Walter Raleigh

Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy…

— Walter Raleigh

Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons…

— Walter Raleigh

It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are…

— Walter Raleigh

I dare not think that any supercelestial heaven, or whatsoever else ... was increate and eternal. And as for the place of…

— Walter Raleigh

Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and…

— Walter Raleigh

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

— Walter Raleigh

Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with the title of his own image and similitude.

— Walter Raleigh

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

— Walter Raleigh

“What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be, Where…

— Walter Raleigh

Love likes not the falling fruit, Nor the withered tree.

— Walter Raleigh

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

— Walter Raleigh

The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well: Yet Britain set the world ablaze…

— Walter Raleigh

Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve…

— Walter Raleigh

'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.

— Walter Raleigh

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

— Walter Raleigh

No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.

— Walter Raleigh