The people turn to a benevolent rule as water flows downwards, and as wild beasts fly to the wilderness.

Benevolence is man’s mind, and righteousness is man’s path.

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

You cannot do kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, in you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.

I've learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.

It makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. . . .It’s sort of what we have instead of God.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh unless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and knowledge are not infused into us from without.

There has never been a shortage of people eager to draw up blueprints for running other people’s lives.

To change your mind and to follow him who sets you straight is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.

He who fears the sun will not become chief.

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.