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.

They say that gifts persuade even the gods. 

The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.

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

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

It is more blessed to give than to receive.

The deed is everything, the glory naught.

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

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

Charity is murder and you know it.

The gratitude is greater than the gift.

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

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