"Sääli on sairautta. (Tyrnävä, Northern Bothnia)"

"Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard battle."

"Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There is no caste in blood."

"La plaincte et la commiseration sont meslees à quelque estimation de la chose qu'on plaind."

"If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfo…"

"Pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong."

"Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?"

"[P]ity comes To those that pity."

"Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody Poor. And Mercy no more could be, If all were as happy as we."

"Is there a spot where Pity’s foot, Although unsandalled, fears to tread, A silence where her voice is mute, Where tea…"