Nobility may exist in name, the sovereign may confer titles, the herald blazon out the descent, but solid glory and real greatness are inseparably connected with virtue.
The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art, . Reigns, more ur less, and glows in every heart: The proud, to gain it, toils on toils endure : The modest shun it, but to make it sure.
Young.
Fade, flowers, fade! nature will have it so; 'Tis but what we must in our Autumn do ! And as your leaves lie quiet on the ground, The loss alone by those that loved them found; So in the grave shall we as quiet lie, Miss'd by some few that loved our company; But some so like to thorns and nettles live, That none for them can, when they perish, grieve.
From The French By Waller.
It is our nature when we do not know what may happen to us to fear the worst that can happen; and hence it is that uncertainty is so terrible that we often seek to be rid of it at the hazard of certain mischief.
Burke.
