Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.
The sacred influence of light appears.
But oh! as to embrace me she inclin'd, I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.
Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.
Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.
Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.