Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.

Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

The quality of life is determined by its activities.

The quality of life is determined by its activities.

The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes read more

The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example).

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the read more

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the loss of both.

From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at read more

From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me still unsatisfied.