Lessons in Life, for All Who Will Read Them

The voice of pride was stronger than the voice of reason.

I wish to do right; and in doing it, am ready to cut off the right hand and pluck out the right eye.

"I will try and keep my mind free from all thought of what people may say or think," returned Mr. Malcolm, "and endeavour to do right for the sake of right."

That's what I think of it, and I always speak out my mind plainly.

I have honestly made what I possess, and have a right to enjoy it

After we have forgiven, we find it no hard matter to forget.

"Before you forgave him, your thought of evil gave no room for the thought of good."

"Rather say you can forget, because you forgive. If you had forgiven truly, you could have ceased to think of what was wrong in your friend long ago. People talk of forgiving and not forgetting, but it isn't so: they do not forget because they do not forgive."

If a man knocks me down, I know the weight of his arm much better than those who have never felt it.

I like to see the truth brought home to the heart and conscience.