Persistent work triumphs.
Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?
Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.
Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.
Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.
It is easy to go down into Hell...; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - -there's the rub.