This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.

Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!

When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.

The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

Taste is the next gift to genius.