The gratitude is greater than the gift.

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

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

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

The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.

Charity is murder and you know it.

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

They say that gifts persuade even the gods. 

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

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

The deed is everything, the glory naught.

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

Every gift has a personality—that of its giver.