Charity(Related Subjects: Love, Kindness)

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919) The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. Francis Maitland Balfour The living need charity more than the dead. George Arnold, The Jolly Old Pedagogue (1866) Charity sees the need not the cause. German Proverb A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. Jack London (1876 - 1916) In charity there is no excess. Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature (1625) Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous. Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682) Charity begins at home. Terence (185 BC - 159 BC), Andria The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation. William Hutton