There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds -- not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but -- a hatred of all injury.

To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?

The marks you receive in the school of experience are mostly bruises.

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.