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

Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day of their existence.

If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back.

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

Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.

Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.