March 14

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice.—EPH. iv, 31.

Abuse of others is a losing game;

The ill we say produces only ill,

Upon the speaker's head recoiling still.

Oh! that the too censorious world would learn

This wholesome rule, and with each other bear!

But man, as if a foe to his own species,

Takes pleasure to report his neighbor's faults,

Judging with rigor every small offense,

And prides himself in scandal. Few there are

Who, injured, take the part of the transgressor,

And plead his pardon ere he deigns to ask it.

JOHN HAYWOOD.

The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is.

RIVAROL.

Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector.

THACKERAY.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we have begun.

LINCOLN.