Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes
Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.