“The glory of greatness consisting more in raising than in ruining of others, it is a far better course to purchase fame by the Plantation of a new World than as many Princes have done by the desolation of this.”

Preferring constructive expansion over destructive conquest · Dedication, An Encouragement to Colonies

• Adventure
• Ambition
• Glory

“Colonisers should intermarry to form such lawful alliances that by admitting equality remove contempt.”

Advocating equality through intermarriage in new settlements · Essay, An Encouragement to Colonies

• Advice
• Equality
• Relationships

“After a great Travel both of Body and of Mind, which (since not voluntary but imposed upon me) was the more painful, by retiring for a Time where I was born being curious, as the most dainty Kind of Pleasure for such as are capable of their Delicacies to recreate myself with the Muses,—I may justly say recreate, since they create new Spirits I conversed with some of the Modern as well as with the Ancients, kindling my Fire at those Fires which do still burn out of the Ashes of ancient Authors.”

On literature as restorative recreation after public duties · Essay, Anacrisis

• Inspiration
• Literature
• Poetry