Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.