Look with favor upon a bold beginning.
None but himself can be his parallel.
Learn all from one thing. -Ab uno disce omnes
It is easy to go down into Hell...; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - -there's the rub.
The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind.
Rumor goes forth at once, Rumor than whom No other speedier evil thing exists; She thrives by rapid movement, and acquires Strength as she goes; small at the first from fear, She presently uplifts herself aloft, And stalks upon the ground and hides her head Among the clouds.