All is possible for those who dare to die!

In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

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

Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.