It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.

It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.

No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king read more

No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

There are four kinds of people, three of which are to be avoided
and the fourth cultivated: those who read more

There are four kinds of people, three of which are to be avoided
and the fourth cultivated: those who don't know that they don't
know; those who know that they don't know; those who don't know
that they know; and those who know that they know.

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

Don't long for the unripe grape.

Don't long for the unripe grape.

Every sound alarms. [A guilty conscience.]

Every sound alarms. [A guilty conscience.]

Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

I must be cruel only to be kind.

I must be cruel only to be kind.