A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments. — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence,… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
Mr. Marx does not believe in God, but he believes deeply in himself. His heart is filled not with love but with… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Is it not the interest of the human race, that every one should be so taught and placed, that he would find… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
Benevolence is a world of itself -- a world which mankind, as yet, have hardly begun to explore. We have, as it… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“We are all each of us riddles, when unknown one to the other. The plain map of human powers and purposes, helps… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“Dress yourself in the silks of benevolence because kindness makes you beautiful.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Adam Smith's image of competition in the marketplace was intended as an adjunct to his detailed description of human motivation in The… — Ted Malloch Copy Share Image
The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
It is a curious paradox of human history that a doctrine that tells human beings to regard themselves as sacrificial animals has… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Steadfast benevolence, sustained by the wisdom that anything other than benevolence is painful, protects the mind from all afflictions. — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face. — Jimmy Sangster Copy Share Image
Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Pastries . . . can only be appreciated to the full extent of their subtlety when they are not eaten to assuage… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
