A sorrows crown of sorrow is remembering happier times. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of ones soul. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong. – Sir Edwin Arnold

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