Make us happy and you make us good.

Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear.

It 's wiser being good than bad; It 's safer being meek than fierce; It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That after Last returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched.

Of power does Man possess no particle: Of knowledge-just so much as show that still It ends in ignorance on every side.

What joy is better than the news of friends?

Let's contend no more, Love, Strive nor weep: All be as before Love, - Only sleep.

Graved inside of it, "Italy".