When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy.

Give both the infinitudes their due - / Infinite mercy, but, I wis, / As infinite a justice too.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

These other ones are ruining it for them all, because they are all getting painted with the same brush.

YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.