“One story sounds good until another is told.”

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.