Dear to me is my bonnie white steed; Oft has he helped me at pinch of need.

Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.

He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.