Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.

You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.