One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. Maya Angelou
The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God. Khalil Gibran
The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it. Margaret Sanger
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. H. P. Lovecraft
In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. Nathaniel Hawthorne
