I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

All is possible for those who dare to die!

Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath; thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them.

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much.

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name