He seldom, I believe, goes into company without an earnest desire to be useful to some one in it; but if circumstances are adverse; if the mollia tempora fandi does not present itself; he knows he should lose more than they would gain, by trying to make the occasion when he does not find it.
"Coelebs In Search of a Wife"
Hannah More
"tempora mutantur," thought he, "nos et mutamur in illis."
"Eric, or Little by Little"
Frederic W. Farrar