Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

If we are only as the potter's clay
Made to be fashioned as the artist wills,
And broken into shards if we offend
The eye of Him who made us, it is well.

One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.