The covetous are always in want.
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.
The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
On day is pressed on by another.