State: 'It's a pleasure to be here' and offer a cup of coffee.

Little things please little minds.

May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. English Proverb

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. English Proverb (17th century)

Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches English Proverb

In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty