On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.
Education forms the common mind.
Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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.