There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.