'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes the throned monarch better
than his crown.--_Shakespeare._
Give money, but never lend it. Giving it only makes a man ungrateful;
lending it makes him an enemy.--_Dumas._
Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars,--not so
sparkling and vivid as many, but dispensing a calm radiance that hallows
the whole. It is the bow that rests upon the bosom of the cloud when the
storm is past. It is the light that hovers above the
judgment-seat.--_Chapin._
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.--_George
Eliot._
Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines
with even more brilliancy than justice.--_Cervantes._
~Milton.~--His poetry reminds us of the miracles of Alpine scenery. Nooks
and dells, beautiful as fairy land, are embosomed in its most rugged and
gigantic elevations. The roses and myrtles bloom unchilled on the verge
of the avalanche.--_Macaulay._
~Mind.~--It is with diseases of the mind as with diseases of the body, we
are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we
do.--_Colton._
The end which at present calls forth our efforts will be found when it
is once gained to be only one of the means to some remoter end. The
natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but
from hope to hope.--_Johnson._
Minds filled with vivid, imaginative thoughts, are the most indolent in
reproducing. Clear, cold, hard minds are productive. They have to
retrace a very simple design.--_X. Doudan._