Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.