Uninvited guests are often most welcome when they leave
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
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.
Appearances are deceiving.
Keep your place in life and your place will keep you
Great determination can overcome most odds.