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.

Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.

Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.

Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.