“Dear is my friend–yet from my foe, as from my friend, comes good: My friend shows what I can do, and my foe what I should.”

To save all we must risk all.

I have enjoyed earthly happiness, I have lived and loved.

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

Art is difficult, transient is her reward.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections.

Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful thing.

The very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

Obedience decks the Christian most.

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody.

Secrecy is for the happy,–misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.

Have Hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow, – No night but hath its morn.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend

The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.

I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.

I pray for my enemies, that God would forgive them.

When you’re taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?