We have met the enemy and he is us.

--Walt Kelly

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems. --Robert Southey

The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief. -- T.S. Eliot

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. --Saint Augustine

You are only what you are when no one is looking. --Robert C. Edwards

Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down into the quicksand of smugness and self-satisfaction. --Sydney Harris

Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: viz., avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. --Petrarch

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note--torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. --Henry Ward Beecher

The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable. --J. S. Buckminster

Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat. --Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me --Alexander Pope

The quality of mercy is not strain'd; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. --William Shakespeare

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will. --William Cowper

The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands. --Arthur H. Stainback

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion. --Everett M. Dirksen

Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand. --Christian Nestell Bovee

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. --Martin Luther King, Jr.

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. --William Wordsworth

Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven. --Henry Ward Beecher

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. --Washington Irving

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away. --Henry Ward Beecher

Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not. --Elias Root Beadle

The Devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape. --William Shakespeare

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help. --Charles Dudley Warner

The world is governed more by appearances than by realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. --Daniel Webster

Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase. --John Balguy












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