The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.

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

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.

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

They say that gifts persuade even the gods. 

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

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

Every gift has a personality—that of its giver.

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

Charity is murder and you know it.

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

The deed is everything, the glory naught.

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