No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows. - Samuel Butler

And bid the devil take the hin'most.

For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope; And when he happen'd to break off I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words,ready to show why, And tell what rules he did it by; Else, when with greatest art he spoke, You'd think he talk'd like other folk, For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools.

Ay me! what perils do environ
The man that meddles with cold iron!