Very nice couplet, although there are dull stretches.
Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors.
Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.
To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.
The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it.
Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.