We are taught to rail against a man the whole session through, and then hob-a-nob with him at the concluding entertainment.

We find men of talent far exceeding our own, whose conclusions are widely different from ours; and we are thus taught to distrust ourselves.

But the best means of all towards catholicity is that wholesome rule which some folk are most inclined to condemn--I mean the law of _obliged speeches_.

Your senior member commands; and you must take the affirmative or the negative, just as suits his best convenience.

This tends to the most perfect liberality.