These are the best evidence a man can have that he has said something it was time to say.

Dr.Johnson was disappointed in the effect of one of his pamphlets.

"I think I have not been attacked enough for it," he said;--"attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds." -- If a fellow attacked my opinions in print would I reply?
Not I.
Do you think I don't understand what my friend, the Professor, long ago called THE HYDROSTATIC PARADOX OF CONTROVERSY?
Don't know what that means ?--Well, I will tell you.

You know, that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way,--AND THE FOOLS KNOW IT.
-- No, but I often read what they say about other people.