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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as p…"

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