Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.
He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.
Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.