Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.