I love everyone now that I have gray hair.
—Polatkin, c. 1855Quotes
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.
—Mark Twain, 1894Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
—Alexander Pope, 1738I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
—Maya Angelou, 1993I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.
—Antonio Porchia, 1943They say that gifts persuade even the gods.
—Euripides, 431 BCThe deed is everything, the glory naught.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832Too many people have decided to do without generosity in order to practice charity.
—Albert Camus, 1956Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
—Jules Renard, 1898Unfortunately, humanitarianism has been the mark of an inhuman time.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1932Charity is murder and you know it.
—Dorothy Parker, 1956Without virtue, both riches and honor, to me, seem like the passing cloud.
—Confucius, c. 350 BCThe friend of all humanity is no friend to me.
—Molière, 1666