A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

A language is like living skin itself.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out