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.

Example is the best precept.

It is easier to become entangled with an enemy than to disentangle oneself afterwards.

If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped.

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

Great determination can overcome most odds.

It is useless attacking the insensible.