"The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not
others, lives unblest."

"If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst
kind of heart trouble."

"They take the paper and they read the headlines,So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of breadlines,And they philanthropically cure them allBy getting up a costume charity ball."

"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog,when you are just as hungry as the dog."

"Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner."

"Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door
of His palace, and alms-giving procures us admission."

"The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable."

"Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who. when alive, would not have contributed."

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right asGod gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in."

"It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive."

"Teach us to give and not count the cost."

"Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong."

"God loveth a cheerful giver. [2 Corinthians 9:7]."

"Charity is the scope of all God's commands."

"To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike."

"You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity."

"And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. [New Test.]."

"As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another."

"A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police."

"Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous."

"Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven."

"The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the
uncharitable."

"What we frankly give, forever is our own."

"It is more blessed to give than to receive."

"Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there."

"The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work."

"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog."

"Sometimes when I'm swimming, I think that maybe someday I'll put my red Speedo up for auction. Or maybe I'll donate it to the Smithsonian. They can stuff it with two plums and a gherkin and put it on display."

"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things."

"In charity there is no excess."

"Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want."

"I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea."

"Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself."

"As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled."

"Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does."

"The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?"

"A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool."

"Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made."

"Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there."

"Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal."