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.

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

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

The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.

The gratitude is greater than the gift.

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

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

Every gift has a personality—that of its giver.

They say that gifts persuade even the gods. 

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

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

Charity is murder and you know it.