There are men who work hard, digging for gold: he worked hard, digging for pity. The misery of the world was his mine. Pain everywhere was an occasion for goodness always.

He visited the poor so long as he had any money; when he no longer had any, he visited the rich.

They are les misérables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need of charity?

The poor man shuddered inside, flooded with an angelic bliss; he told himself in a burst of joy that this would last all his life; he

As long as ignorance and misery exist in the world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not entirely useless

The old woman who had given her lessons in what may be called the life of indigence, was a sainted spinster named Marguerite, who was pious with a true piety, poor and charitable towards the poor, and even towards the rich, knowing how to write just sufficiently to sign herself Marguerite, and believing in God, which is science.

His rich penitents and the pious women of D—— had often contributed the money for a beautiful new altar for monseigneur's oratory; he had always taken the money and given it to the poor. "The most beautiful of altars," said he, "is the soul of an unhappy man who is comforted and thanks God.

I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.

He who hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none.

For having wealth and wherewithal to "do good", if you do it not, talk not of faith, for you have no faith in you.

For example, after a half-century of Johnson's "Great Society" welfare programs, which have cost trillions of dollars, the national poverty rate remains roughly the same as it was in the 1960s. And despite countless promises by President Obama that his policies would make health coverage and college more affordable,56 health insurance costs and college expenses are significantly higher than they were when Obama implemented his reforms.

Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.