Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it.
We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.
Don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
Appearances are deceptive.