They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.

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

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.