Affection Quote by Thomas Jefferson

We are all prone to brood on the evil done us. That brooding becomes as a gnawing and destructive canker. Is there a virtue…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions, Guides us by vanities.…

— T.S. Eliot

Each human being can at once be a fighter and forgiver. When self-doubt tortures him, he most play the role of a fighter. And…

— Sri Chinmoy

Let but the public mind become once thoroughly corrupt, and all attempts to secure property, liberty or life, by mere force of laws written…

— Horace Mann

“There was something in his face that made one trust him at once. All the candour of youth was there, as well as youth's…

— Oscar Wilde

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an…

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.

— George MacDonald

This imperiousness which aids us in all things is merely a fitting authority which comes from superior spirit.

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.…

— Abraham Lincoln

“a noble and active mind blunts itself against nothing so quickly as the sharp and bitter irritant of knowledge. And certain it is that…

— Thomas Mann

“If there is a dark and hostile power which traitorously fixes a thread in our hearts in order that, laying hold of it and…

— E. T. A. Hoffmann