Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach?'

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it.

While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.