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.

Familiarity gives rise to contempt.

All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

Little friends may prove great friends.

Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.

We like other people to show themselves to us as they really are.

It is with our Passions, as it is with Fire and Water, they are 'Good Servants,' but 'Bad Masters.'