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.