Courage conquers all things.
Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
Anyone can be rich in promises.
It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.
There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose.
Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together.