Humanity is better than gold. [ Goldsmith ]
Be humanity evermore our goal. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Fear makes us feel our humanity. [ Beaconsfield ]
The still, sad music of humanity. [ Wordsworth ]
The religion of humanity is love. [ Mazzini ]
Humanity is constitutionally lazy. [ Josiah Gilbert Holland (pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) ]
It comes -- the beautiful, the free,
The crown of all humanity -
In silence and alone
To seek the elected one. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Endymion ]
Humanity is great but men are small. [ Börne ]
History is the conscience of humanity. [ E. de Girardin ]
He has no religion who has no humanity. [ Arab. Proverb ]
Look to thyself; reach not beyond humanity. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use. [ William Hazlitt ]
Humanity is about the same all the world over. [ Donn Piatt ]
Love, hope, fear, faith — these make humanity;
These are its sign and note and character. [ Robert Browning ]
Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity. [ Gibbon ]
Tears are the tribute of humanity to its destiny. [ W. R. Alger ]
We must strive to make of humanity one single family. [ Mazzini ]
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity of a man. [ Adam Smith ]
The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men. [ Charles H. Fowler ]
Woman is the nervous part of humanity; man, the muscular. [ Halle ]
Oblivion is the rule, and fame the exception, of humanity. [ Rivarol ]
Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages. [ Lamartine ]
The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come. [ Charles Sumner ]
All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience. [ J. Stuart Mill ]
Against rebels it is cruelty to be humane, and humanity to be cruel. [ Corneille Muis ]
He does nothing who endeavours to do more than is allowed to humanity. [ Johnson ]
Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward. [ Heinrich Heine ]
We must consider humanity as a man who continually grows old, and always learns. [ L. Figuier ]
Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully. [ Hosea Ballou ]
A sweet new blossom of humanity, fresh fallen from God's own home to flower on earth. [ Gerald Massey ]
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. [ Jean Paul ]
Humanity has won its suit (in America), so that Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum. [ Marquis De Lafayette ]
The history of love would be the history of humanity; it would be a beautiful book to write. [ Charles Nodier ]
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. [ Balzac ]
Love is but another name for that inscrutable presence by which the soul is connected with humanity. [ Simms ]
Love is just another name for the inscrutable presence by which the soul is connected with humanity. [ Simms ]
Madness is the last stage of human debasement. It is the abdication of humanity. Better to die a thousand times! [ Napoleon ]
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened, and decorated by the intellect of man. [ Charles Sumner ]
The great men of the earth are but the markingstones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion. [ Mazzini ]
A really great man is known by three signs - generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, and moderation in success. [ Bismarck ]
Whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity. [ Bacon ]
Affliction is the wholesome soul of virtue; Where patience, honor, sweet humanity. Calm fortitude, take root, and strongly flourish. [ Mallet and Thomson ]
By cultivating the beautiful, we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers; by doing good, we foster those already belonging to humanity. [ Howard ]
Heroes are men who set out to be demi-gods in their own eyes, and who end by being so at certain moments by dint of despising and combating all humanity. [ George Sand ]
The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever. [ O. W. Holmes ]
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations. [ Seneca ]
There is but one law for all; namely, that law which governs all law, - the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity; the law of nature and of nations. [ Burke ]
Everywhere the strong have made the laws and oppressed the weak; and, if they have sometimes consulted the interests of society, they have always forgotten those of humanity. [ Turgot ]
Man is the will and woman is the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint. [ Emerson ]
As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are continguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity. [ Plutarch ]
Government began in tyranny and force, in the feudalism of the soldier and the bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way like a thunderstorm against the organised selfishness of human nature. [ Wendell Phillips ]
We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke. [ Pope ]
Great men, though far above us, are felt to be our brothers; and their elevation shows us what vast possibilities are wrapped up in our common humanity. They beckon us up the gleaming heights to whose summits they have climbed. Their deeds are the woof of this world's history. [ Moses Harvey ]
The physical plagues and the calamities of human nature have rendered society necessary. Society has added to the evils of nature; the imperfections of society have created the necessity for government, and government adds still further to the woes of society: this is the whole history of humanity. [ Chamfort ]
We lose in depth of expression when we go to inferior animals for comparisons with human beauty. Homer calls Juno ox-eyed; and the epithet suits well with the eyes of that goddess, because she may be supposed, with all her beauty, to want a certain humanity. Her large eyes look at you with a royal indifference. [ Leigh Hunt ]
The dramatist, like the poet, is born, not made. There must be inspiration back of all true and permanent art, dramatic or otherwise, and art is universal: there is nothing national about it. Its field is humanity, and it takes in all the world; nor does anything else afford the refuge that is provided by it from all troubles and all the vicissitudes of life. [ William Winter ]
Society is but the contest of a thousand little opposite interests - an eternal contest between all the vanities that clash with each other, wounded, humiliated the one by the other, and which expiate tomorrow in the disgust of a defeat the triumph of today. To live in solitude, to avoid being crushed in the surging throng, is what the world calls being a nonentity - to have no existence. Poor, miserable humanity! [ Chamfort ]
Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies, adds rich specimens to our cabinets of character, dramatizes life for the unimaginative, daguerreotypes it for the unobservant, multiplies experience for the isolated or inactive, and cheers age, retirement and invalidism with an available and harmless solace. [ Tuckerman ]
I have very often lamented and hinted my sorrow, in several speculations, that the art of painting is made so little use of to the improvement of manners. When we consider that it places the action of the person represented in the most agreeable aspect imaginable, - that it does not only express the passion or concern as it sits upon him who is drawn, but has under those features the height of the painter's imagination, - what strong images of virtue and humanity might we not expect would be instilled into the mind from the labors of the pencil! [ Steele ]