Whiles you'll find folk of the same family, the same race, the same country, who gie the same words different meanings, and grow confused and angry for that reason.

There's a way they can overcome that, and reach an understanding.

It's by getting together and talking oot all that confuses and angers them.

Speech is a great solvent if a man's disposed any way at all to be reasonable, and I've found, as I've gone about the world, that most men want to be reasonable.
They'll call me an optimist, maybe.

I'll no be ashamed of that title.
There was a saying I've heard in America that taught me a lot.