Benevolence Quote by Walter Bagehot

“never appeared ugly to me, for his face, beaming with boundless kindness and benevolence towards mankind, had the stamp of intellectual beauty.”

— George Saunders

Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid to a…

— Joseph Addison

“Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) was a profoundly important analysis of human states of mind - a kind of early philosophical/ psychological…

— Ronald Carter

Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence.

— Walter Bagehot

“If only we studied the stars as much as we study our own reflections.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“That’s a stupid name! Whirly-gig is much better, I think. Who in their right mind would point at this thing and say, ‘I’m going…

— Nathan Reese Maher

“But fairytales were, at best, dirty mirrors whose warped and pitted surfaces reflected a highly distorted view of the truth, quite different from reality.”

— Nenia Campbell

There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't reach, or touch, the…

— Douglas Sirk

“Call me crazy, but there is something terribly wrong with this city.”

— Nathan Reese Maher

“I keep holding up the mirror of the sun, so you can see the stunning reflections of everything you’re becom- ing.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

“From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.” ~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive”

— Aaron Lauritsen

I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.

— William Congreve