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.

Every gift has a personality—that of its giver.

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

Charity is murder and you know it.

The deed is everything, the glory naught.

I love everyone now that I have gray hair.

The gratitude is greater than the gift.

It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Unfortunately, humanitarianism has been the mark of an inhuman time.

They say that gifts persuade even the gods. 

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

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

I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.