a fool with intellect than to persuade him
that he had none.--BABINET.

At thirty man suspects himself a fool;
Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;
At fifty, chides his infamous delay,
Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve,
Resolves--and re-resolves; then dies the same.
--YOUNG.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others,
and to forget his own.--CICERO.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.--POPE.

A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more
incorrigible.--COLTON.

Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once
uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to the
last moment, to bring before a wise man arguments that may entirely
change his opinion.--HELPS.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are
fools.--CHAPMAN.

None but a fool is always right.--HARE.

People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no
relations to blush for them.--HALIBURTON.

FORBEARANCE.--Learn from Jesus to love and to forgive. Let the blood
of Jesus, which implores pardon for you in heaven, obtain it from you
for your brethren here upon earth.--VALPY.

The kindest and the happiest pair
Will find occasion to forbear;
And something every day they live
To pity, and perhaps forgive.
--COWPER.

It is a noble and a great thing to cover the blemishes and to excuse
the failings of a friend; to draw a curtain before his stains, and to
display his perfections; to bury his weaknesses in silence, but to
proclaim his virtues upon the house-top.--SOUTH.

FORGIVENESS.--If ye forgive men their trespasses, your Heavenly Father
will also forgive you.--MATTHEW 6:14.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must
pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.--LORD HERBERT.

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.--BAILEY.

The brave only know how to forgive.--STERNE.

The gospel comes to the sinner at once with nothing short of complete
forgiveness as the starting-point of all his efforts to be holy. It
does not say, "Go and sin no more, and I will not condemn thee." It
says at once, "Neither do I condemn thee: go and sin no
more."--HORATIUS BONAR.

Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to
forgive.--LYTTON.

Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His l