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Our feelings were given us to excite to action, and when they end in themselves, they are cherished to no good purpose -- Sanford


Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character -- The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues - not by the power of those which subdued him -- Richter

Cultivate consideration for the feelings of other people if you want not have your own injured -- Those who complain the most of ill-usage are those who abuse others the oftenest - Richter

The heart that is soonest to awake to the flower is always the first to be touched by the thorns -- Moore

Thought is deeper than all speech; feeling deeper than all thought; soul to souls can never teach what unto themselves was taught -- Cranch

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The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection - even in the kindliest soul - is - tenderness toward the hard - forbearance toward the un-forbearing - warmth of heart toward the cold - philanthropy toward the misanthropic -- Richter

Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads  in their hearts -- the difficulty is to keep them apart and yet both actively working together -- Sterne

A word - a look - which at one time would make no impression -  at another time wounds the heart; and like a shaft flying with the wind, pierces deep, which, with its own natural force -- would scarce have reached the object aimed at - Sterne

Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause - a proof I think - that man is designed for a higher state of existence -- Coleridge

Feelings come and go - like light troops following victory of the present; but principles - like troops of the line are undisturbed and stand fast -- Richter

The heart has often been compared to the needle of the compass for its constancy; has it ever been so for its variations?  Yet,  were any man to keep minutes of his feelings from youth to age, what a table of variations would they present -- how numerous, how diverse, how strange ! - Hare

Feeling in the young precedes philosophy, and often acts with a better and more certain aim -- Carleton

Sincerity is to speak as we think - to do as we pretend and profess - to perform what we promise - and really to be what we would seem and appear to be -- Tilloston

Sincerity is the face of the soul as dissimulation is the mask -- S. Dubay

Sincerity - a deep - genuine heart felt sincerity is a trait of true and noble manhood --Sterne

Inward sincerity will of course influence the outward deportment; where the one is wanting, there is great reason to suspect the absence of the other -- Sterne

Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness and by consequence of all heartfelt religion -- Kant

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to  be in reality what we would appear to be ; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them -- Socrates

Believe nothing against another , but on good authority; one report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it -- Penn

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as it is the best fruit which the birds have been peeking at -- Swift

Slander is the revenge of the coward, and dissimulation his defense -- Johnson

Plato, hearing that some asserted he was a very bad man. said "I shall take care so to live that nobody will believe them" -- Guardian

Diogenes being asked "What is that beast, the bite of which is the most dangerous?" replied "Of wild beasts, the bite of a slanderer; and of tame beasts, that of the flatterer" -- Diogenes

No one is safe from slander -- The best way is to pay no attention to it - but live in innocence and let the world talk -- Moliere

The slanderer inflicts wrong by calumniating the absent; and he who gives credit to the calumny before he knows its truth, is equally guilty -- Herodotus

Oh! Many a shaft, at random sent, finds mark the archer little meant; and many a word, at random spoken, may soothe or wound a heart that's broken -- Walter Scott

It is commonly unnecessary to refute slander and calumny, except by perseverance in well doing; they are sparks, which, if  you do not fan them, will soon go out --

If evil be said of thee,m and it is true, correct it; if it be a lie, laugh at it -

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long lived -- Truth is the child of time; ere long she shall appear to vindicate thee -- Kant

Slander cannot make the subject of it either better or worse -- it may represent us in a false light, or place a likeness of us in a bad one, but we are always the same -- Not so the slanderer, for calumny always makes the calumniator worse, but the culmniated never -- Colton