Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.