Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!
Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race.
And friend received with thumps upon the back.
A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.