He that commits a fault thinks every one speaks of it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that defends an injury is next to him that commits it. [ Proverb ]

The day that a man knows he commits a sin, he condemns himself. [ Proverb ]

He that praises bestows a favour, he that detracts commits a robbery. [ Proverb ]

He that commits a sin shall find the pressing guilt lie heavy on his mind. [ Creech ]

Passion may not unfitly be termed the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. [ William Penn ]

A woman who writes, commits two sins: she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women. [ Alphonse Karr ]

Every error of the mind is the more conspicuous and culpable in proportion to the rank of the person who commits it. [ Juvenal ]

He who commits a wrong will himself inevitably see the writing on the wall, though the world may not count him guilty. [ Tupper ]

The blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the unoffending. The cottage is sure to suffer for every error of the court, the cabinet, or the camp. When error sits in the seat of power and of authority, and is generated in high places, it may be compared to that torrent which originates indeed in the mountain, but commits its devastation in the vale. [ Colton ]

Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that which is before, and discovering how much ground remains to be trodden, it is active and vigilant. Having gained one height, pride looks down with complacency on that which is beneath it; humility looks up to a higher and yet higher elevation. The one keeps us on this earth, which is congenial to its nature; the other directs our eye, and tends to lift us up to heaven. [ James McCosh ]

Two things a master commits to his servant's care - the child and the child's clothes. It will be a poor excuse for the servant to say, at his master's return, Sir, here are all the child's clothes, neat and clean, but the child is lost. Much so of the account that many will give to God of their souls and bodies at the great day. Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for my soul, that is lost and cast away forever. I took little care and thought about it. [ John Flavel ]