To commiserate is sometimes more than to give; for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.—Mountford.
A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track,—but one inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.—Beecher.
The greatest pleasures of which the human mind is susceptible are the pleasures of consciousness and sympathy.—Parke Godwin.
What gem hath dropp'd and sparkles o'er his chain?
The tear most sacred, shed for other's pain,
That starts at once—bright—pure—from pity's mine,
Already polish'd by the Hand Divine.
—Byron.
Sympathy is especially a Christian duty.—Spurgeon.
Tact.—Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely, and conciliate those you cannot conquer.—Colton.
A little management may often evade resistance, which a vast force might vainly strive to overcome.
Talent.—Talent of the highest order, and such as is calculated to command admiration, may exist apart from wisdom.—Robert Hall.
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what Nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.—Sydney Smith.
Talent without tact is only half talent.—Horace Greeley.