Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue in order to benefit others—this man only is happy.—Fa-kheu-pi-u.
He that loveth iniquity beckoneth to misfortune.—Jitsu-go-kiyo.
Watch your thoughts.—Dhammapada.
Control your tongue.—Dhammapada.
Have a strict control over your passions.—Story of Sundari and Nanda.
The higher life maketh he known, in all its purity and in all its perfectness.—Tevijja-sutta.
So imbued were they with lovingkindness that all the birds and animals loved them and harmed them not.—Sama Jataka (Burmese version).
Compassionate and kind to all creatures that have life.—Brahma-jala-sutta.
The birds and beasts and creeping things—'tis writ—
Had sense of Buddha's vast embracing love,
And took the promise of his piteous speech.
—Sir Edwin Arnold.