“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite”

“If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning”

“It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted”

“To advise is not to compel”

“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”

“If I’d listened to my consumers, I’d have given them a faster horse”