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With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in. -
Abraham Lincoln
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To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike. -
Horace Mann
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You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity. -
Samuel Johnson
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As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another. -
John Stuart Mill
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To give requires good sense. -
Ovid
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They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball. -
Ogden Nash
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We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things. -
Mother Teresa
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything. -
Samuel Johnson
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Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. -
Simone Weil
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The charitable give out the door and God puts it back through the window. -
Proverb
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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled. -
Victor Hugo
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. -
John D Rockefeller
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The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work. -
John Ruskin
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Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made. -
Antoine De Saint Exupery
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Charity begins at home, but should not end there. -
Thomas Fuller
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Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there. -
Elbert Hubbard
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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea. -
Miguel De Cervantes
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