All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country.

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.