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.

Keep your place in life and your place will keep you

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

Those who suffer most cry out the least.

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

If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.

Appearances are deceptive.