Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
I was what you are, you will be what I am.
Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.
Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas")
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble.