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

- David Mallet

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

- David Mallet

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

- David Mallet

The wailing owl screams solitary to the mournful moon.

- David Mallet

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

- David Mallet

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

- David Mallet

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.

- David Mallet

A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it.

- David Mallet