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.

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.

Slow but steady wins the race.

Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.

Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing.

The more you want, the more you stand to lose