Never trust advice from a man in the throes of his own difficulty.
He that has many friends, has no friends.
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
Straw shows which way the wind is blowing.
If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair's breadth of starving or drowning.
If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped.