When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. - William Hazlitt

General principles are not the less true or important because, from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it, or like that secret influence which binds the world together and holds the planets in their orbits.

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.