The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

Patience and shuffle the cards.

It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.

When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.

Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.