All government,—indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act,—is founded on compromise and barter.

Edmund Burke (1729-1797): Speech on the Conciliation of America. Vol. ii. p. 169.

  He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Love's Labour's Lost. Act v. Sc. 1.