Vast chain of Being, which from God began, Natures aethereal, human, angel, man,...
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend.
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Forgiveness
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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The present-day mentality, more perhaps than that of people in the past, seems opposed to a God of mercy, and in fact tends to exclude from life and to remove from the human heart the very idea of mercy. The word and the concept of 'mercy' seem to cause uneasiness in man, who, thanks to the enormous development of science and technology, never before known in history, has become master of the earth and has subdued and dominated it. This dominion over the earth, sometimes understood in a one-sided and superficial way, seems to leave no room for mercy....
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Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age:...
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Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy also show to me.
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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Health consists with temperance alone.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Humor
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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The Muse but served to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease, my life;
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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His Holiness rejoices to know that the object of your Society is in perfect accord with the doctrine which the Church has always taught and the Saints have always followed, leaving us innumerable beautiful examples of compassion and tenderness.The fact that the Nations have not always followed the precepts of the Church and the example of the Saints moves the Sovereign Pontiff all the more to favour all that tends (while reserving supreme honour to the King of Creation) to foster respect for these other creatures of God, which Providence forbids us to exploit without concern and enjoins us to show wisdom in our use of them …Therefore the August Pontiff trusts that you will find faithful and efficient fellow-workers in the priests of God, since it is their duty to conform to the teaching of the Church and the example of the Saints. It is for them nobly to train souls in sentiments of enlightened gentleness and fostering care and guidance, so that they may offer to the animals refuge from every suspicion of roughness, cruelty or barbarism, and lead men to understand from the beauty of creation something of the infinite perfection of the Creator.’
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