What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

Beauty draws us with a single hair.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.

Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.