Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.
Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.
Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.
Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!
What has not wasting time impaired?
Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true