The gratitude is greater than the gift.

It is more blessed to give than to receive.

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

Every gift has a personality—that of its giver.

I love everyone now that I have gray hair.

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.

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.

The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.

They say that gifts persuade even the gods. 

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