A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
Now is the time for drinking; now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot.
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger.
Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.
Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain.