If you would be good, first believe that you are bad.—­Epictetus.

Repentance is a goddess and the preserver of those who have erred. 
—­Julian.

Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they have been taught to consider as an ordeal that must be passed through before they can arrive at regeneration.  To satisfy such minds, it may be observed, that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produce amendment, and that the greatest is insufficient, if it do not.—­Colton.

Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish.—­Dr. Johnson.

Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance.—­Dewey.

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.—­Goldsmith.

I will to-morrow, that I will,
I will be sure to do it;
To-morrow comes, to-morrow goes,
And still thou art to do it. 
Thus still repentance is deferred. 
From one day to another: 
Until the day of death is come,
And judgment is the other. 
—­DREXELIUS.

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.

He had such a gentle method of reproving their faults that they were not so much afraid as ashamed to repeat them.—­Atterbury.