Benevolence Quote by Horace Mann

Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.

— Confucius

The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies of the…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in…

— Confucius

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere…

— Anonymous

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love him to…

— Immanuel Kant

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory…

— Charles Dudley Warner

We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds…

— Henry David Thoreau

When we step out of our normal world and leave behind us all the usual barriers and prejudices, we tend to become more adventurous.

— Paulo Coelho

Beneficience removes evils, introduces the practice of virtue, and adds to general welfare and civilization.

— Dayananda Saraswati

Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.

— Al Gore