Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own

No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?

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.

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

Never find fault with the absent.