“Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.”

In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.

One who is allowed to sin, sins less

Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.

Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.

Whatever is unknown is magnified.

Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.

Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.

The persecution of genius fosters its influence.

The most seditious is the most cowardly.

Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

If you’ve been full of error and defeat, be done with it. Say, “By God’s grace, I’m done with it,” and take charge of yourself like never before.”

We should be so joyful from God’s grace that others would respond by saying, ‘I wish I had your God.

Grace means you’re in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.

Grace is the vehicle God uses on occasion to ensure that we get precisely what we dont deserve.

Love slandered the heart, we fumbled gracefully, we fell in love with the end from the start.

Let us resolve by God’s grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.

I stepped into love with grace. I stepped out of love with grace. The beginning was beautiful. The ending was beautiful.