’Twill not, false traitor!
’Twill not restore the truth and honesty
That thou hast banished from thy tongue with lies.
John Milton.
The traitor to humanity is the traitor most accursed. Lowell.
The utmost ingenuity of metaphysics cannot
Excuse the man who wantonly wounds another.
Benjamin Constant.
A woman’s shape doth shield thee. Shakespeare.
Aunt Clara has only Christian forgiveness for others. Stephen E. Barton (Executor of the Clara Barton estate, 1911).