Words challenge eternity.
Death's dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.