Be smart, drink your wine.
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
Seize today and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow.
Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.