Charity

“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business”

“"She is hungrier than I am," she said to herself. "She's starving."”

“to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people.”

“a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you”

“Providence put me here, I hope, among other reasons, in order that I may make you what amends I can for the inhospitality of my neighbors.”

“Human beings _can_ be awful cruel to one another.”

“He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, Be comfort to my age.”

“the cloud had a silver lining, as it gave me the feeling that I was doing something for my world--our family.”

“Too late loved I Thee, O Thou Beauty of ancient days, yet ever new! too late I loved Thee”

“it was the highest commendation of his doctrine with all men, that he taught nothing that he did not practise in his life among his brethren”

“you have called me your friend. Take this strap--quick!”

“those of the population who had formerly been members of the factions laid aside their mutual enmity and in common they attended to the burial rites of the dead”

“I have eaten for you, and I have drunk for you, I will also give you the ship; and all because you were kind to me at the first.”

“I want to have time to look for my children, and see how many of them I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead.”

“when I speak of Mrs. Bruce as my friend, the word is sacred.”

“tending the sick, feeding the hungry, and relieving the distressed”

“May He, who made both Jew and Christian, shower down on you his choicest blessings!”

“For just precisely what I thought I liked about ye, was that ye never quarrelled:--and now I like ye better”

“Taking, therefore, his sword with which he was girt, he divided his cloak into two equal parts, and gave one part to the poor man, while he again clothed himself with the remainder”

“Nobody; I myself. Farewell. Commend me to my kind lord. O, farewell!”

“Standing before the Brandenburg Gate, every man is a German, separated from his fellow men. Every man is a Berliner, forced to look upon a scar.”

“In a word, I would submit that what keeps you in Berlin is love--love both profound and abiding.”

“since here we have passed our lives in love and concord, we wish that one and the same hour may take us both from life, that I may not live to see her grave, nor be laid in my own by her.”

“Alas, poor soul, and we should rather pity him!”

“a life is a life, old shrew, and it is more than ships or liquor.”

“Ye took the better part and pardoned; I took the worse, and there lies the clay of mine enemy.”

“But Christe’s lore, and his apostles’ twelve, He taught, and first he follow’d it himselve”

“hath placed a Principle in the human Mind, which incites to exercise Goodness towards every living Creature”

“Tell them, that the Being we all worship, under different names, will be mindful of their charity; and that the time shall not be distant when we may assemble around His throne without distinction of sex, or rank, or color.”

“The soul is satisfied now with nothing less than God.”

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”

“your love for each other has been tested in the fire and not found wanting.”

“The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.”

“Then Christine kissed me, for the first time, herself, here, on the forehead”

“he was pleased when he could take up a straw from the ground for the love of GOD, seeking Him only, and nothing else, not even His gifts.”

“Dears, when you say your prayers, I think you might ask God to show His pity upon all prisoners and captives.”

“It is, indeed, the season of regenerated feeling--the season for kindling not merely the fire of hospitality in the hall, but the genial flame of charity in the heart.”

“So be it. For since I have taken thee for my wife, so must I show thee respect in all matters; wherefore thou shalt have thy will in this and in all other things”

“You cannot touch love either; but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.”

“He was a true friend in need, that old roadman.”

“Consider, then, O 'Efreet, the pardon of the envied to the envier, and his kindness to him, notwithstanding the injuries he had done him.”

“If I had not forgiven you, I would never have taken the trouble to punish you.”

“That Indian, sir, is an inhabitant of an oppressed country; and I am still, and shall be, to my last breath, one of them!”

“people might be equal in things that mattered much more than clothes, the affairs of education and religion”

“if it were a womanly task to go about in tenement houses in order to nurse the sick, it might be quite as womanly to go through the same district in order to prevent the breeding of so-called "filth diseases."”

“I can love you; I do, and I’ll try to help you to grow up a good Christian girl.”

“there ain’t no more ye can do! I forgive ye, with all my soul!”

“we shall patiently bear the trials that fate imposes on us; we shall work for others without rest, both now and when we are old”

“You didn’t do it to help ’Lias. You did it to have him grateful to you.”

“those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”

“But they take more care of their sick than of any others; these are lodged and provided for in public hospitals.”

“Willingly, had they accepted me, I would have worked for the wounded, in return for bread and water.”

“And the grateful words and smile which rewarded me for binding up a wound or giving cooling drink was a pleasure worth risking life for at any time.”

“Many others, on that day, gave me thanks in words the meaning of which was lost upon me, and all of them in that one common language of the whole world--smiles.”