A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged...

Slow but steady wins the race

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

And yet surely to alchemy this right is due, that it may be compared to the husbandman whereof Aesop makes the fable, that when he died he told his sons that he had left unto...

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

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

Kindness effects more than severity.

United we stand, divided we fall.

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another

In union there is strength.

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

I would by all means have men beware, lest Aesop’s pretty fable of the fly that sate on the pole of a chariot at the Olympic races and said, ‘What a dust do I raise,’...

What a splendid head, yet no brain.

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Better to starve free than be a fat slave

Oh, how I have longed to see this day, in which the weak shall take their place with impunity by the side of the strong.” And after the Hare said this, he ran for his...

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

Don’t let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth – don’t let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

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

Familiarity breeds contempt.