Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast!
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.
Every hour has its end.
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.