When I struggle to be terse, I end by being obscure.
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
I was what you are, you will be what I am.
The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.
Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.