O God! that bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap.
Hood.
The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy;
And ’tis the crown of justice, and the glory,
Where it may kill with right and save with pity.
J. Fletcher.
Tact is born with some people.
William Makepeace Thayer.
Tact is not a single faculty, but a combination of faculties.
W. M. Thayer.