A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

Charity is murder and you know it.

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.

The gratitude is greater than the gift.

Every gift has a personality—that of its giver.

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.

Unfortunately, humanitarianism has been the mark of an inhuman time.

The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.

It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Without virtue, both riches and honor, to me, seem like the passing cloud.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

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