~Benevolence.~--There cannot be a more glorious object in creation than a
human being, replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he
might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good
to his creatures.--_Fielding._
Genuine benevolence is not stationary but peripatetic. It _goeth_ about
doing good.--_Nevins._
It is an argument of a candid, ingenuous mind to delight in the good
name and commendations of others; to pass by their defects and take
notice of their virtues; and to speak or hear willingly of the latter;
for in this indeed you may be little less guilty than the evil speaker,
in taking pleasure in evil, though you speak it not.--_Leighton._
The root of all benevolent actions is filial piety and fraternal
love.--_Confucius._
True benevolence is to love all men. Recompense injury with justice, and
kindness with kindness.--_Confucius._
It is in contemplating man at a distance that we become
benevolent.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
~Bible.~--As those wines which flow from the first treading of the grapes
are sweeter and better than those forced out by the press, which gives
them the roughness of the husk and the stone, so are those doctrines
best and sweetest which flow from a gentle crush of the Scriptures and
are not wrung into controversies and commonplaces.--_Bacon._
They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those
discoveries which God hath made in Scripture, would stand out against
any evidence whatever; even that of a messenger sent express from the
other world.--_Atterbury._
But what is meant, after all, by _uneducated_, in a time when books have
come into the world--come to be household furniture in every habitation
of the civilized world? In the poorest cottage are books--is one book,
wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light
and nourishment and an interpreting response to whatever is deepest in
him.--_Carlyle._
A stream where alike the elephant may swim and the lamb may
wade.--_Gregory the Great._
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming
more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred
writings.--_Herschel._
I am heartily glad to witness your veneration for a book which, to say
nothing of its holiness or authority, contains more specimens of genius
and taste than any other volume in existence.--_Landor._
~Bigotry.~--A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive
even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices,
damns all mankind by the word of his power.--_Boileau._
Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which
Lenhenhoeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they
freeze the suppliant; by their fiery zeal they burn the
sufferer.--_Colton._
A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes
there is no virtue but on his own side.--_Addison._