Example Is More Powerful Than Precept.

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.

If You Were Foolish Enough To Sing All The Summer, You Must Dance Supperless To Bed In The Winter.

Kindness Is More Persuasive Than Force.

We Like Other People To Show Themselves To Us As They Really Are.

Familiarity Breeds Contempt.