How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.