Try..............................

While there, the older Adams received a message from home reporting that the expenses of war had exhausted the loans he had secured in Amsterdam;  America could no longer pay its bills.  Adams would have to return to Holland.  He was in no condition for an ice-bound passage northward, and he felt there was little chance of success.   Nevertheless, as he wrote in his journal, "no man knows what he can bear until he tries," a sentiment that might have been translated into Latin in order to decorate the family coat of arms.

-James Traub,  John Quincy Adams:  Militant Spirit