Be thine own privy counsellor. [ Beaconsfield ]

Time is the wisest counsellor. [ Pericles ]

Conscience is its own counsellor. [ South ]

Pride scorns a director, and choler a counsellor. [ Proverb ]

Where vain-glory reigns, folly is prime counsellor. [ Proverb ]

He deserves small trust who is not privy counsellor to himself. [ Forde ]

He that is his own counsellor knows nothing sure but what he hath laid out. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter. [ Barrow ]

Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped. Diffidence, therefore, which is so able a mentor to the writer, would prove a dangerous counsellor for the orator. [ Colton ]