Let the punishment fit the crime.

I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!

When every blessed thing you have is made of silver, or of gold, you long for simple pewter.

Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.

Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.