To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.
The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is a mere reflex of the lives of others. It migrates into their bodies, and identifying its existence with their existence, finds its own happiness in increasing and prolonging their pleasures, in extinguishing or solacing their pains.
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