I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.
And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.
Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland.
The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile.