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- He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.
- John Brown
- Human nature constitutes a part of the evidence in every case.
- Elisha Potter
- He is not deemed to give consent who is under a mistake.
- Unknown, Latin Legal Phrase
- The conscience of a people is their power.
- John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
- But O the truth, the truth. The
many eyes
That look on it! The diverse things
they see. - George Meredith (1828 - 1909)
- Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe.
- John Milton (1608 - 1674)
- I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
- Nathaniel Emmons
- The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.
- Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)
- The principles now planted in thy bosom will grow, and one day reach maturity; and in that maturity thou wilt find thy heaven or thy hell.
- David Thomas
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