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.

Equals make the best friends.

It is possible to have too much of a good thing.

He collected audiences around him, and flourished and exhibited and harangued.

Example is the best precept.

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

Good things come in small packages.