"Let your secret sympathies and your compassion..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.”

“Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”

“But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.”

“It costs more to maintain ten vices than one virtue.”

“It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.”

“One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice.”

“A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.”

“Mentally, physically and emotionally we are the same.We each have the potential to good and bad and to be overcome by disturbing emotions such as anger, fear, hatred, suspicion and greed. These emotions can be the cause of many problems.On the other hand if you cultivate loving kindness, compassion and concern for others, there will be no room for anger, hatred and jealousy.”

“Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.”