As it is never too soon to be good, so it is never too late to amend: I will, therefore, neither neglect the time present, nor despair of the time past. If I had been sooner good, I might perhaps have been better; if I am longer bad, I shall, I am sure, be worse.—Arthur Warwick.
Repentance is heart's sorrow, and a clear life ensuing.—Shakespeare.
Repose.—Power rests in tranquillity.—Cecil.
Have you known how to compose your manners? You have done a great deal more than he who has composed books. Have you known how to take repose? You have done more than he who has taken cities and empires.—Montaigne.
Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations."—Bovee.
There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds.—Lavater.
Reproof.—If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach that is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling.—Haliburton.
The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.—Hosea Ballou.
No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow.—Lytton.
Reproof is a medicine like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.—Horace Mann.