To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.
Mighty to inspire new hopes, and able to drown the bitterness of cares.
The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man.