Fear is prophetical of evil.
A benefactor is a representative of God.
None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.
Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.