The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

In maiden meditation, fancy free.

And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.

I'll note you in my book of memory.

O, let him pass. He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.

Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would we could do so for her benefits are mightily misplaced and the bountiful blind girl doth most mistake in her gifts to women. 'Tis true for those that she makes fair she scarce makes honest and those that she makes honest she makes very ill-favouredly. Nay, now thou goest from Fortunes office to Natures. Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the lineaments of Nature.