Too many have dispensed1 with generosity2 in order to practice charity.
Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919)
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance3; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference4; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
Francis Maitland Balfour
The living need charity more than the dead.
George Arnold, The Jolly Old Pedagogue5 (1866)
Charity sees the need not the cause.
German Proverb
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.
Jack6 London (1876 - 1916)
In charity there is no excess.
Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature (1625)
Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous7.
Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682)
Charity begins at home.
Terence (185 BC - 159 BC), Andria
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation8.
William Hutton
