Habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness.
nothing is as conventional as adolescence.
Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.
To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.
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.