Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

The wailing owl screams solitary to the mournful moon.

O grant me, Heaven, a middle state, Neither too humble nor too great; More than enough, for nature's ends, With something left to treat my friends.

I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.

What proves the hero truly great,Is never, never to despair.

A student was given a mentoring opportunity, "in the hope that when you had somebody to lean on you, you would begin to stand a little steadier yourself, and get manliness and thoughtfulness.

Many say "What goes up must come down." I believe this was spoken by a pessimist. I believe it is vitally important to remember that "What goes up...must have started some place." #workhard

When I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff and have a show like nobody ever had before.

I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.

Life is not a bowl full of cherries, there's good and bad stuff.

We thank God that our enemies are idiots.

My name will live forever, but I should not care about this at all, because I am not my name and my name is not me!

At a time when America should be doing everything we can to lead the fight to defeat ISIS and other radical jihadists, Donald Trump is playing right into their hands.

I prayed the monsters would give up. Or that perhaps Philip of Macedonia would climb back to the terrace (do crocodiles climb?) and renew the fight.

Money has yet to make anyone rich.