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.

Age and want sit smiling at the gate.

Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.

Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.