The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves. – Catharine Esther Beecher

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago. – Eamon de Valera

Sympathy with nature is part of a good persons religion. – Francis Herbert Hedge

Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well. – Henry Cabot Lodge