"Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?"

"No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity."

"For pity melts the mind to love."

"Yet, let it not be thought that I would exclude pity from the human mind. There are scarcely any that are not, to some degree, possessed of this pleasing softness; but it is at best but a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket…"

"We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced."

"O, brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother;where pity dwells, the peace of God is there."

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

"The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness."

"Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient."

(Said about Nienna, the fictional goddess of sorrow:) "But she does not weep for herself; and those who hearken to her learn pity, and endurance in hope."