Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.
adherent, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get.
DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.
TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Sex for men: when it's right, it's right; when it's wrong, it's still right.
Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty conscience against others the way we wipe dirty fingers on a rag. This is as evil a misuse of others as the practice of exploitation.
Both of us don't go backwards and I think that is the key to the fight. Whoever ends up going backwards is going to lose.
What is desperately needed. . . is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.