Bowels of compassion. [ St. John ]

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God will never. [ Cowper ]

It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity. [ Cervantes ]

The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker. [ Theodore Parker ]

A great soul is proof against injustice, pain, and mockery; and it would be invulnerable if it were not open to compassion.

The symptoms of compassion and benevolence in some people are like those minute-guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

A man who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species. [ Frederick the Great ]

Let us pity the wicked man; for it is very sad to seek happiness where it does not exist. Let our compassion express itself in efforts to bring him gently back to sacred principle, and if he persist, let us pity him the more for a blindness so fatal to himself. [ De Charnage ]

When I look upon the tombs of the great, every motion of envy dies; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire forsake me: when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tombs of the parents themselves, I reflect how vain it is to grieve for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying beside those who deposed them, when I behold rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men who divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the frivolous competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. [ Addison ]