Piety is a kind of modesty. It makes us turn aside our thoughts, as
modesty makes us cast down our eyes in the presence of whatever is
forbidden.--_Joubert._
Piety is not an end, but a means of attaining the highest degree of
culture by perfect peace of mind. Hence it is to be observed that those
who make piety an end and aim in itself for the most part become
hypocrites.--_Goethe._
~Pity.~--Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel. Savages
are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of
reason. We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in
distress, without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve
them. When I am on my way to dine with a friend, and, finding it late,
bid the coachman make haste, if I happen to attend when he whips his
horses, I may feel unpleasantly that the animals are put to pain, but I
do not wish him to desist; no, sir, I wish him to drive on.--_Johnson._
Pity is sworn servant unto love, and this be sure, wherever it begin to
make the way, it lets the master in.--_Daniel._
Those many that need pity, and those infinities of people that refuse to
pity, are miserable upon a several charge, but yet they almost make up
all mankind.--_Jeremy Taylor._
Of all the sisters of Love one of the most charming is Pity.--_Alfred de
Musset._
~Place.~--In place there is a license to do good and evil, whereof the
latter is a curse; for in evil the best condition is not to will; the
second, not to can.--_Lord Bacon._
Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is
not the place that ennobles you, but you the place; and this only by
doing that which is great and noble.--_Petrarch._