I am devilishly afraid, that's certain; but ... I'll sing, that I may seem valiant.
Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!
War is a trade of kings.
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join'd the former two.