Can never be a mouse of any soul.
Pope: Paraphrase of the Prologue, line 298.
[4:2] Handsome is that handsome does.—Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, chap. i.
[4:3] Hee must have a long spoon, shall eat with the devill.—Heywood: Proverbes, part ii. chap. v.
He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.—Shakespeare: Comedy of Errors, act iv. sc. 3.
[4:4] Thales was asked what was very difficult; he said, "To know one's self."—Diogenes Laertius: Thales, ix.
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is man.
Pope: Epistle ii. line 1.