The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.
If you can talk about it, why paint it?
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
The worst men often give the best advice.
If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.
It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!