As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution.
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
Dead men tell no tales.