Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.

Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.

There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.

Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

God who sends the wound sends the medicine.

He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.

It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.