Truth forever on the scaffold. Wrong forever on the throne. Yet that scaffold sways the future. - James Russell Lowell

Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. And in this case, also, the prudent will prepare themselves to encounter what they cannot prevent. Some people advise us to put on the brakes, as if the movement of which we are conscious were that of a railway train running down an incline. But a metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home and imbed it in the memory.