Diplomacy is the police in Sunday clothes

268. — How many persons speak and write much, yet say nothing at ail I

' 269. — ^Young people say what they are doing ; old men say what they bave done ; and fools what they mean to do.

270. — Direct contradiction is not the best means of recalling people to reason.

271. -^Publie opinion cannot resist power directed by reason.

272. — We muBt hâve merit onrselves to be able to discem it in others.