Rabelais (i. 229, 230.):—
"Si les nues tomboyent, esperoyt prendre alouettes."
"Good nature and good sense must ever join;
To err is human, to forgive divine."
Pope's Essay on Criticism, pp. 524, 525.
"Nay, fly to altars, there they'll talk you dead;
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
Ib. pp. 624, 625.