Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief. — James Russell Lowell. American poet and diplomat (1819–1891) Differences
There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.