Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.Collection: Patience
O grant me, Heaven, a middle state, Neither too humble nor too great; More than enough, for nature's ends, With something left to treat my friends.Collection: Humble
The wailing owl screams solitary to the mournful moon.Collection: Moon
I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.Collection: Honesty
A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it.Collection: People
Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.Collection: Fear
True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.Collection: Strong
What proves the hero truly great,Is never, never to despair.Collection: Hero