He who pays the piper can call the tunes.
The use of butterflies is to adorn the world and delight the eyes of men, to brighten the countryside, serving like so many golden spangles to decorate the fields.
Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.
Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.
Manners make often fortunes.
The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another