The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest.
Charity Quotes
Maimonides’ Eight Grades of Charity: 1) To give reluctantly; 2) To give cheerfully but not adequately; 3) To give cheerfully and adequately, but only after being asked; 4) To give cheerfully, adequately, and of your own free will, but to put it in the recipient’s hand in such a way as to make him feel […]
Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.
Alas for the rarity of Christian charity under the sun!
All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.
Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins.
If you haven’t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one.
Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
Nothing is more patent, indeed, than the fact that charity merely converts the unfit – who, in the course of nature, would soon die out and so cease to encumber the earth – into parasites – who live on indefinitely, a nuisance and a burden to their betters.
