A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head. He placed his paws on it and said, "What a beautiful head! Yet it is of no value, as it entirely lacks brains."

It pays to be content with your lot.

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

Clumsy jesting is no joke.

Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon.

He collected audiences around him, and flourished and exhibited and harangued.

It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it.