Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if.
He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.
The devil is a gentleman.
What e'er thou art, act well thy part.
For a noble heart, the most precious gift becomes poor, when the giver stops loving.
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.