Persuasion is better than force.
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Distrust interested advice.
He who plots to hurt others often hurts himself.
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.
Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it.