I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.

That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.

Don't waste the opportunity.

Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to break its way through hard rocks, more powerful in its blow than lightning.

Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

He is not poor who has a competency.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.