Be cheerful while you are alive. Loses the past and is dead to the future. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains victory. Nephew of Julius Caesar and founder of the Roman Empire. The Roman General Quintilius Varus lost three legions and their eagles in the Battle of the Teutoberger Wald against the German tribes.
All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare.
Puritan Divine, Advice to Benjamin Franklin upon approaching a low hanging beam in his parsonage. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.