Joseph Butler

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

In the final analysis, it is your decision to make, but it doesn't move as fast as I'd like it to move.