Convictions do not imply reasons.
... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!
Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the experience that worketh hope.
If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.