There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.
I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.
I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.
To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.
silence is very moving to youth, for who knows what it hides?
Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.