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.

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

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

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

Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Familiarity gives rise to contempt.

Better to die once and for all, than live in continual terror.