Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.

The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.

Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.

Riches either serve or govern the possessor.

Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.