benevolence

• The benevolence, the good nature, the humanity of a slave-holder, avail as little as the benevolence of the bandit, who generously clothes the stripped and naked traveller in a garment plundered from his own portmanteau. —  The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive
• He who is in prosperity is equally an occasion of grief to the envious and to the malicious man; therefore we look upon benevolence, which is a willing our neighbor's good, as an opposite to both envy and hatred, and fancy these two to be the same because they have a contrary purpose to that of love. —  A Word to the Wise - A Townhall.com user blog
• Your benevolence was a theme on which my young attention hung with truer worship than courtiers ever pay the throne. —  Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record
• Here he became celebrated for his benevolence, and for the energy with which he entered into all the schemes that were devised for the benefit of the town of Grayton. —  The World of Ice
• Saunders' disposition, it appears, 'is one certainly of extreme benevolence, and of a benevolence which is by no means less strong and full when purely gratuitous and spontaneous, than when he seems to be under the tie of some definite and positive obligation.' —  The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859

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