Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
God exalts the man who humbles himself.
Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.