People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.—­Haliburton.

Forbearance.—­Learn from Jesus to love and to forgive.  Let the blood of Jesus, which implores pardon for you in heaven, obtain it from you for your brethren here upon earth.—­VALPY.

The kindest and the happiest pair
Will find occasion to forbear;
And something every day they live
To pity, and perhaps forgive. 

          
                          —­Cowper.

It is a noble and a great thing to cover the blemishes and to excuse the failings of a friend; to draw a curtain before his stains, and to display his perfections; to bury his weaknesses in silence, but to proclaim his virtues upon the house-top.—­South.

Forgiveness.—­If ye forgive men their trespasses, your Heavenly Father will also forgive you.—­Matthew 6:14.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.—­Lord Herbert.

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.—­Bailey.

The brave only know how to forgive.—­Sterne.

The gospel comes to the sinner at once with nothing short of complete forgiveness as the starting-point of all his efforts to be holy.  It does not say, “Go and sin no more, and I will not condemn thee.”  It says at once, “Neither do I condemn thee:  go and sin no more.”—­Horatius Bonar.

Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.—­Lytton.

Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?  I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.—­Cowper.

Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us.—­The lord’s prayer.

God’s way of forgiving is thorough and hearty,—­both to forgive and to forget; and if thine be not so, thou hast no portion of His.—­Leighton.

Fortitude.—­The greatest man is he who chooses the right with invincible resolution; who resists the sorest temptations from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is the calmest in storms, and whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is the most unfaltering.—­Channing.

Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought.  It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped.—­Jeremy Collier.

True fortitude I take to be the quiet possession of a man’s self, and an undisturbed doing his duty, whatever evil besets or danger lies in his way.—­Locke.