C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Lenity
Lenity has almost always wisdom and justice on its side.
Hosea Ballou.
Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.
Joubert.
Lenity will operate with greater force, in some instances, than rigor. It is, therefore, my first wish to have my whole conduct distinguished by it.
Washington.