An ill weed grows apace.
The best way to accomplish something is to just do it, and then find the courage afterward.
I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.
Words writ in waters.
An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.
As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.