They say that gifts persuade even the gods. 

It is more blessed to give than to receive.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

The deed is everything, the glory naught.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

Without virtue, both riches and honor, to me, seem like the passing cloud.

Charity is murder and you know it.

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all.

Too many people have decided to do without generosity in order to practice charity.

Every gift has a personality—that of its giver.

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.

Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.