Proverbial Wisdom

Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.

949. One murder made a villain;
Millions a hero. Princes were privileg’d
To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.

Beilby Porteus (1731-1809)

Death, line 155 (speaking of how war came into the world)

950. Nicknames and whippings, when they are once laid on, no one has discovered how to take off.

Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)

Imaginary Conversations,
Peter Leopold and President Du Paty

951. In fair virtue’s heavenly road,
The cottage leaves the palace far behind.

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

The Cotter’s Saturday Night

952. A penny sav’d’s a penny got.

William Somerville (1675-1742)

The Sweet Scented Miser, line 30

953. If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

Science and Culture.
On Elementary Instruction in Physiology.

954. Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man’s conscience is the oracle of God.

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

The Island, Can. I, VI