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.

He cherished the feeling of affection for all beings as if they were his only son.—­Lalita Vistara.

    Closely as cause and effect are bound together,
    So do two loving hearts entwine and live—­
    Such is the power of love to join in one.

—­Fo-pen-hing-tsih-king.

                That thou mayst know—­
    What others will not—­that I love thee most
    Because I loved so well all living souls.

—­Sir Edwin Arnold.

Always give in charity to people of good conduct.—­Jatakamala.

With every desire to do good, the ignorant and foolish only succeed in doing harm....  ’Tis knowledge crowns endeavor with success.—­Jataka.

There is no sweet companion like pure charity.—­Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king.

Almsgiving, it is said, constitutes the value of riches.—­Jatakamala.

Good is restraint in all things.—­Dhammapada.

Unselfishness, true, and self-control.—­Jataka.

The religious mendicant, wisely reflecting, is patient under cold and heat, under hunger and thirst, ... under bodily sufferings, under pains however sharp.—­Sabbasava-sutta.

Though a man conquer a thousand thousand men in battle, a greater conqueror still is he who conquers himself.—­Udanavarga.

Root out the love of self.—­Jataka.

The man of honor should minister to his friends ... by liberality, courtesy, benevolence, and by doing to them as he would be done by.—­Sigalovada-sutta.

Practice the art of “giving up.”—­Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king.

Speak not harshly to anybody.—­Dhammapada.

May I speak kindly and softly to every one I chance to
meet.—­Inscription in Temple of Nakhon Vat.

Offensive language is harsh even to the brutes.—­Suttavaddhananiti.

Courtesy is the best ornament.  Beauty without courtesy is like a grove without flowers.—­Buddha-charita.

He knew not the art of hypocrisy.—­Jatakamala.

Let a man say that which is right, not that which is unrighteous, ... that which is pleasing, not that which is unpleasing, ... that which is true, not that which is false.—­Subhasita-sutta.

As he who loves life avoids poison, so let the sage avoid sinfulness.—­Udanavarga.

He sees danger in even the least of those things he should avoid.—­Tevijja-sutta.

Sin easily develops.—­Rock Inscriptions of Asoka.