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.

A kindness is never wasted

It is one thing to conceive a good plan, and another to execute it

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.