Quotation from: Villette

Written by: Charlotte Bronte

"Dr. Bretton is benevolent--humanely disposed towards all his race,
Dr. Bretton would have benignity for the lowest savage, or the worst
criminal."

"I heard some gentlemen, some of papa's friends, who were talking
about him, say the same. They say many of the poor patients at the
hospitals, who tremble before some pitiless and selfish surgeons,
welcome him."