“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Kindness is stronger than fear.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Ability without honor is useless.

A friend is a second self.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Wisdom is the only thing which can banish sorrow from the breast .

Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.

There’s no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.

What we don’t need in the midst of struggle is shame for being human.

Humans are stupid. I’m ashamed to be human.

If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

Don’t allow shame to ruin your “today” let the forgiveness of Jesus take over and watch your life blossom into all that God has designed you to be.

Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed and rare.

Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it – there is a certain shameful solidarity.