BENEVOLENCE

Related Subjects: Charity, Gifts, Goodness, Kindness, Philanthropy

1. To make some nook of God's Creation a little fruitfuller, better, more worthy of God; to make some human hearts a little wiser, manfuller, happier,—more blessed, less accursed! It is work for a God.—CARLYLE, Past and Present
   

2. Take egotism out, and you would castrate the benefactors.—EMERSON, Journals
   

3. Benevolent people are very apt to be one-sided and fussy, and not of the sweetest temper if others will not be good and happy in their way.—ARTHUR HELPS, Friends in Council
   

4. Benevolence is the distinguishing characteristic of man. As embodied in man's conduct, it is called the path of duty.—MENCIUS
   

5. And chiefly for the weaker by the wall,
   You bore that lamp of sane benevolence.—GEORGE MEREDITH, To a Friend Lost