Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
Nature is perfectly impartial. Brain has no sex!
If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.
Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.
Weakness is a great bully without knowing it.