Ægroto dum anima est spes est

While there is life, there is hope, and there is life in a muscle. We should not give up our exertions too early; what is difficult, is not therefore to be deemed impossible, as persons apparently at the point of death are sometimes found to recover; and a turn not unfrequently takes place in our affairs, and we are rescued from difficulties that seemed at one time hopeless and irremediable.