We cannot be just if we are not humane. [ Vauvenargues ]

Against rebels it is cruelty to be humane, and humanity to be cruel. [ Corneille Muis ]

Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs. [ Lavater ]

I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness. [ Pliny the Elder ]

Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic, and the true, by whose light it surveys and shapes their opposites. It is an humane influence, softening with mirth the ragged inequalities of existence, prompting tolerant views of life, bridging over the spaces which separate the lofty from the lowly, the great from the humble. [ E. P. Whipple ]