"You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you may prevent them from stopping to build their nests there."
In general society one should always avoid discussions upon two subjects—religion and politics. In a discussion upon either of these subjects you will find very little intellectual honesty, and it will almost invariably lead to irritating differences of opinion.
A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others and exacts it in return from them.
Hazlitt.
"There is no real conflict between truth and politeness; what is imagined to be such is only the crude mistake of those who fail to discover their harmony. Politeness, taken in its best sense, is the graceful expression of respect, kind feeling, and good will."
"Beloved among women is she who, having warned a friend of the consequences to follow rash doings, will, when her prophecies have come true, withhold the triumphant: I told you so!"