Diplomacy is what is practiced after-the-fact. Never be too right too soon -- as any smart Uncle will tell you. The man who guesses what will happen will be blamed for it. No one will believe he has merely guessed.
It took most people a lifetime to join the human race.
Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.
I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.
Speech isn't for agony.
Balance is compromise. Of the muscles.