Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.
Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Mankind — the race would perish did they cease to aid each other.
A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.