A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.
I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.
as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.
Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than on its virtues!
Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
Weakness is a great bully without knowing it.