Example is the best precept.

One story sounds good until another is told

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

It is one thing to conceive a good plan, and another to execute it

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When we come to you," sad they to the sea, "we are sweet and drinkable; but when once we have mingled with you, our waters become as briny and unpalatable as your own." The sea replied shortly, "Keep away from me, and you'll remain sweet.

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.