Now o'er his tomb and happy ashes will not violets spring?

Now o'er his tomb and happy ashes will not violets spring?

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.

When war is raging the laws are dumb.

When war is raging the laws are dumb.

But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!

But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!

An old dog barks not in vain.

An old dog barks not in vain.

Shoemaker, stick to your last.
[Lat., Ne supra crepidam judicaret.]

Shoemaker, stick to your last.
[Lat., Ne supra crepidam judicaret.]

What a man does by the agency of another is his own act.

What a man does by the agency of another is his own act.

Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.

Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.

All is not gold that glisters.

All is not gold that glisters.