The poorest people are the sweetest people.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

Philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice.

it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.

I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor.

Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.

Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half a man, and there will always be pain in the world, knowing this does not mean that a man shall dispair. A good man will seek to take pain out of things. A foolish man will not even notice it, except in himself, and the poor unfortunate evil man will drive pain deeper into things and spread it about wherever he goes.

Small service is true service while it lasts:Of humblest friends, bright creature! scorn not one:The daisy, by the shadow that it casts,Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

That best portion of a good man's life,His little, nameless, unremembered actsOf kindness and of love.

The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.

If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.