——Petite hinc, juvenesque senesque
Finem animo certum, miserisque viatica curis.
Seek here, ye young, the anchor of your mind;
Here, suff'ring age, a bless'd provision find.
Elphinston.
In youth, however unhappy, we solace ourselves with the hope of better fortune, and however vicious, appease our consciences with intentions of repentance; but the time comes at last, in which life has no more to promise, in which happiness can be drawn only from recollection, and virtue will be all that we can recollect with pleasure.
No. 42.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1750.
Mihi tarda fluunt ingrataque tempora.
Hor. lib. i. Epist 1. 15.