The heart forgets its sorrow and ache. – James Russell Lowell

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

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion. – Louise J. Kaplan

It is foolish to tear ones hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. – Marcus Tullius Cicero