The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.
These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution.
Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.