In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.

Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.

Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true

Let us both small and great push forward in this work, in this pursuit, if to our country, if to ourselves we would live dear.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)

Now is the time for drinking; now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot.