It is reported that a young man being examined preparatory to joining
the church was asked--"Under whose preaching?" The prompt reply--"I was
converted under my mother's practising." Did any preacher ever utter so
powerful a sermon as the young man embodied in those few words?
990
It is a common thing for men to hate the authors of their preferment, as
the witnesses of their mean original.
991
At the first entrance into thy estate keep a low sail; thou mayest rise
with honor; thou canst not decline without shame; he that begins as his
father ended, will be apt to end as his father began.
992
Some grave their wrongs on marble; He more just,
Stooped down serene, and wrote them on the dust;
Trod under foot, the sport of every wind,
Swept from the earth, and blotted from His mind;
There, secret in the grave, He bade them lie,
And grieved they could not escape the Almighty's eye.
993
One is keen to suspect a quarter from which one has once received a
hurt. "A burnt child dreads the fire."
994
The noblest remedy for injuries is oblivion.
--_From the French._
995
Hath any wronged thee?
Be bravely revenged;
Slight it, and the work is begun;
Forgive it, and 'tis finished.
He is below himself who is not above an injury.
996
A man hurts himself by injuring me: what, then shall I therefore hurt
myself by injuring him?
997
_Ink--Described_:--The colored slave that waits upon thought; a drop may
make a million think.
--_Byron._
998
The innocent are gay.
--_Cowper._
999
There is no real courage in innocence.
1000
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the
law.
--_Seneca._
1001
Better confide and be deceiv'd
A thousand times by treacherous foes,
Than once accuse the innocent
Or let suspicion mar repose.
1002
It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a
man treads on another's toe in good society, do you think it is taken as
an insult?
1003
I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the
man who has forgiven an insult.
1004