'He means well' is useless unless he does well.
Laws are subordinate to custom.
In everything the middle road is best.
If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.
I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.]
Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.