All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.
Charity Quotes
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.
As the purse is emptied the heart is filled.
Your smiling in your brother’s face is charity; and your exhorting man to virtuous deeds is charity; and your prohibiting the forbidden is charity; and your showing men the road, in the land in which they lose it, is charity; and your assisting the blind is charity.
The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
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.
