"Then welcome fate! 'Tis true I perish, yet I perish great: Yet in a mighty deed I shall expire, Let future ages hear it, and admire!"

"The words of a wise man are like apples of gold in settings of silver."

"Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile."

"Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man."

"But death is universal. Even gods cannot protect the people that they love, when fate and cruel death catch up with them."