The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant endeavours, and raise them to public esteem.
I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused!
And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.

