There are people who can do all fine and heroic things except one! keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. - Mark Twain

[W]e consciously or unconsciously pay more attention to tuning our opinions to our neighbor's pitch and preserving his approval than we do to examining the opinions searchingly and seeing to it that they are right and sound.

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.