If a friend tell thee a fault, imagine always that he telleth thee not the whole. - Thomas Fuller

But our captain counts the image of God — nevertheless his image — cut in ebony as if done in ivory, and in the blackest Moors he sees the representation of the King of Heaven.

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come — as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.

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