If you do what you should not, you must bear what you would not.—Franklin.
As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.—Southey.
In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.—Chapin.
Even in evil, that dark cloud which hangs over the creation, we discern rays of light and hope, and gradually come to see in suffering and temptation proofs and instruments of the sublimest purposes of wisdom and love.—Channing.
Example.—Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.—Rev. R. Cecil.
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.—Goldsmith.
A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.—Thomas à Kempis.
None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.—Franklin.
No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.—Hosea Ballou.
I am satisfied that we are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.—Herodotus.