What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.
Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune.
Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.
Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.
Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.