"Extremity is the trier of spirits...." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“We were not born to sue, but to command.”

“From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night,The hum of either army stilly sounds,That the fixed sentinels almost receiveThe secret whispers of each other's watch.Fire answers fire, and through their play flamesEach battle sees the other's umbered face.Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighsPiercing the night's dull ear; and from the tentsThe armorers accomplishing the knights,With busy hammers closing rivets up,Give dreadful note of preparation.”

“O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain: for they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. he, that no more must say, is listened more than they whom youth and ease have taught to gloze; more are men's ends marked, than their lives before: the setting sun, and music at the close, as the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last; writ in rememberance more than things long past”

“Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”

“Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.”

“Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage”

“Music is a defining element of character.”

“Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.”

“There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.”