Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince.
Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
Wise men have but few confidants, and cunning ones none.
There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel.
I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.
The books are balanced in heaven, not here.