The greatest comfort of my old age, and that which gives me the greatest satisfaction, is the pleasing remembrance of the many benefits and friendly offices I have done to others.
Charity Quotes
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
Elvis did not die with a fortune; he spent nearly all he made. The stories are legion: Elvis standing beside two daydreaming newlyweds in a Cadillac showroom. “Which one do you like?” he asks. They point and he says, “Get in, it’s yours.” Or the young Elvis, a skinny kid with ridiculous sideburns, brushed off […]
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
Do not tell me… of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.
The most unproductive, empty, fruitless fellow in the world is the man with a barren heart.
Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
When we cast our bread upon the waters, we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from that grantor’s gift.
It is easy to give alms; it is better to work to make the giving of alms unnecessary.
