Benevolence is a world of itself -- a world which mankind, as yet, have hardly begun to explore. We have, as it were, only skirted along its coasts for a few leagues, without penetrating the recesses, or gathering the riches of its vast interior.
HORACE MANN, A Few Thoughts for a Young Man
The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.