As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.--SOUTHEY.
In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure. --CHAPIN.
Even in evil, that dark cloud which hangs over the creation, we discern rays of light and hope, and gradually come to see in suffering and temptation proofs and instruments of the sublimest purposes of wisdom and love.--CHANNING.
EXAMPLE.--Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.--REV. R. CECIL.
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.--GOLDSMITH.
A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.--THOMAS À KEMPIS.
None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.--FRANKLIN.
No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.--HOSEA BALLOU.
I am satisfied that we are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.--HERODOTUS.
Advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.--H.W. SHAW.
If thou desire to see thy child virtuous, let him not see his father's vices; thou canst not rebuke that in children that they behold practised in thee; till reason be ripe, examples direct more than precepts; such as thy behavior is before thy children's faces, such commonly is theirs behind their parents' backs.--QUARLES.
Example is contagious behavior.--CHARLES READE.
The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but he went about doing good. --HORACE MANN.
The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.--DR. JOHNSON.
EXCESS.--Excess always carries its own retribution.--OUIDA.
The misfortune is, that when man has found honey, he enters upon the feast with an appetite so voracious, that he usually destroys his own delight by excess and satiety.--KNOX.
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. --SHAKESPEARE.