Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway. – Elbert Hubbard, A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911

The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com