Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it. - James Russell Lowell

New times demand new measures and new men;
The world advances, and in time outgrows
The laws which in our father's times were best;
And doubtless, after us, some purer scheme
Will be shaped out by wiser men than we,
Made wiser by the steady growth of truth.

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences in belief.

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion, — emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.