Nature has sometimes made a fool; but a coxcomb is always of a man's own
making.--_Addison._
~Forbearance.~--The little I have seen of the world teaches me to look
upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger. When I take the
history of one poor heart that has sinned and suffered, and represent to
myself the struggles and temptations it has passed through, the brief
pulsations of joy, the feverish inquietude of hope and fear, the
pressure of want, the desertion of friends, I would fain leave the
erring soul of my fellow-man with Him from whose hand it
came.--_Longfellow._
~Forethought.~--Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a
choice of evils.--_Colton._
Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought,
must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.--_Schiller._