Sweet mercy is nobility’s true badge.
Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy.
Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will; much more a man, who hath any honesty in him.
THERE IS NO HOPE BUT US. THERE IS NO MERCY BUT US, THERE IS NO JUSTICE. THERE IS JUST US.
The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle dew from heaven…
Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me…