C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Loss
No man can lose what he never had.
Izaak Walton.
Shakespeare.
Napier.
Lord Lytton.
Scott.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Tennyson.
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
Seneca.
A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
Montaigne.