“No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward”

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

“...convinced that in trying to please all, he had pleased none, and had lost his ass into the bargain.”

“We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction”

“He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. ”

“Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing.”

“A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.”