I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.
Advice is given freely because so much of it is worthless.
What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
... hunger and cold, ill-health and pain are nothing. They pass. The thing that remains is ignorant criticism, well-meaning but futile advice, the contempt of a subordinate, the feelings of the underdog.
There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.
I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it.
