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

Little by little does the trick.

There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.

The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.

It is possible to have too much of a good thing.

It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.

Keep your place in life and your place will keep you.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

Persuasion is more effective than force.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them.

There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them.

Better to starve free than be a fat slave.

Better to starve free than be a fat slave.

Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden.

Please all, and you will please none.

At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.

A man can get something from war that is impossible to acquire any place else.

A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.