Every gift has a personality—that of its giver.

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

The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.

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

I love everyone now that I have gray hair.

The gratitude is greater than the gift.

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

The deed is everything, the glory naught.

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

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

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

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

Charity is murder and you know it.