Ambrose Bierce on virtue

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Ocean: A body of water occupying 2/3 of a world made for man…who has no gills.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963

• Forgiveness
• Love
• Theology

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Aristotle384–322 BC

• Courage

To err is human, to forgive divine.

Alexander Pope1688–1744An Essay on Criticism (1711)In context

• Forgiveness