If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.

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

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

It is more blessed to give than to receive.

They say that gifts persuade even the gods. 

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.